Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Introduce git-history(1) command for easy history editing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2025, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7bvj5q8m.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <3fb47b15-ed43-4137-95f8-cee97ab5e44c@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Granted, I think good progress is being made and perhaps the changes
>> needed for the rest aren't that huge (and maybe there's more pieces
>> I'm not quite understanding yet similar to the
>> two-split-patches-always-summing-to-the-original), I was just a little
>> surprised that my comments are summarized by "expecting a small and
>> final reroll".  :-)

It was because I didn't think (and I still do not think) your comments are something for the immediate future, for a tool that wants to present its minimum-serviceable experimental version to users so that the users can experiment, extend it more and fix its behaviour incrementally. I may have been probably wrong, but I was getting an impression from the reviews that it is getting to there, not the feature-perfect version that needs only maintenance from now on, but a minimum-serviceable one.

We could instead of collect all the I want moon and I want cheeze comments and iterate until the tool has all of them before it hits 'next', but I do not think it is often what we do to a new feature.

> Yes I'm not expecting any new functionality but I am expecting a bit 
> more than tiny cleanup.

OK. Then we'd need a non-trivial amount of work before we get there.

Thanks.