Re: [PATCH 1/4] git-prompt.sh: add submodule indicator

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2017, 05:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xp0QJZkiYzgBhPvYPsG7iqRDhRQUjcdgf_GHU-93bSO-g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kY_1ELUZ2wZwNbQ+HrDnRBM3ngt9HKHKPmvaJEcoAFTtg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> (unrelated side note:)
> At GitMerge facebook presented their improvements on mercurial
> and one of the things was "hg absorb". It would take the dirty hunks/lines
> of the working tree and amend them into the "stack of commits", i.e. into
> your local unpublished history. So instead of making fixup commits
> and doing the whole interactive rebase thing, it would do it automatically
> for you. I think that is a neat time saver.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan

How exactly was it different from doing "git commit --fixup xyz" and "git rebase -i --autosquash"? Like, what was the advantage to the user facing workflow? Just curious to see if we could learn something from it.

Regards, Jake