From: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:48:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [feature wishlist] add commit subcommand to git add -i
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrote:
> going further, if git rebase -i  had ability to  "back" a fixup patch
> back to where it should have been, and adjust the intervening patches
> where conflict would normally happen, that would be awesome.
> Simplistically, this would just shift the patch 1 step back iteratively,
> until it wouldnt apply properly, and then --abort, stopping at the last
> clean rebase.
>
> apologies if this is too hair-brained, or already done.

It sounds like you're looking for several git commit
(-p|--interactive) --fixup <commit>, followed by a git rebase -i
--autosquash. It's not quite as automatic as you describe, but I think
that automating it would be pretty hard to do correctly.

Conrad