From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:41:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] Introduce git-history(1) command for easy history editing
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZRa6s1CMq19Z4GDz2HGsw6TCUQ4eu-nC26P2=qP2Jb6ug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20251001-b4-pks-history-builtin-v4-0-8e61ddb86317@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> 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.
>
>   - jj-absorb(1) to take some changes and automatically apply them to
>     commits in your history that last modified the respective hunks.
>
>   - jj-split(1) to split a commit into two.
>
>   - jj-new(1) to insert a new commit after or before a specific other
>     commit.
>
> Not all of these commands can be ported directly into Git. jj-new(1) for
> example doesn't really make a ton of sense for us, I'd claim. But some
> of these commands _do_ make sense.
>
> This patch series is a starting point for such a command. I've
> significantly slimmed it down from the first couple revisions now
> following the discussions at the Contributor's Summit yesterday. This
> was my intent anyway, as I already mentioned on the last iteration.
>

Hello,

I'm jumping in directly to review the fourth version of the patch
series. As such I might have missed discussions in the prev versions.

Apart from small comments and questions, it looks to be in a good shape.
I think the addition of changes would perhaps warrant a re-roll but we
should be close :)

Thanks,
Karthik

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