Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] Introduce git-history(1) command for easy history editing

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 06:03:02PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 06:25:06PM -0700, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > over recent months I've been playing around with Jujutsu quite
> > > > frequently. While I still prefer using Git, there's been a couple
> > > > features in it that I really like and that I'd like to have in Git, as
> > > > well.
> > > >
> > > > A copule of these features relate to history editing. Most importantly,
> > > > I really dig the following commands:
> > > >
> > > >   - jj-abandon(1) to drop a specific commit from your history.
> > > 
> > > It also rebases all descendants on top of the parent(s) of the
> > > abandoned commit(s). Branches pointing to the rebased commits are also
> > > repointed. So is the working copy if it points to a rebased commit
> > > (the closest equivalent in Git would be HEAD). Do you plan to make all
> > > the `git history` commands behave that way too?
> > 
> > Yup.
> 
> That sounds scary...  What does "all descendants" mean in this
> context?
> 
> Let's suppose I have this piece of history, I'm on 'branch2', and I
> drop commit B.  Which commits will be rewritten and which branches
> will be repointed?
> 
>    A---B---C---D   branch1
>             \   \
>              \   E---F   branch2
>               \       \
>                \       G---H---I   branch3
>                 \
>                  J---K---L   branch4
>