[AndrewHampton]

Yeah, it's definitely less powerful that what absorb is doing. I wasn't trying to argue that it was equivalent. I just wanted to share a bash one-liner that I've had success with in case others find it helpful.

> What if I want some parts of it into one commit and another parts into another?

Looks like absorb will automatically break out every hunk into a separate fixup commit. My one-liner will create 1 fixup commit for everything that's staged. That's typically what I need, but on the occasions it's not, I use `git add -p`, as kadoban mentioned, to stage exactly what I want for each commit.

[mst]

Oh, hrm, looking at this description and the one liner, I rather like.

Once you mentioned `git add -p` I realised that this is pretty much what I do already, except with a far more efficient way of selecting the relevant commit to do it to.

Muchas gracias.

[AndrewHampton]

Yeah, I use about a dozen git aliases in my normal workflow. In case it's helpful, here are the relevant ones for this flow:

  alias git_main_branch='git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD | cut -d/ -f2'
  alias gapa='git add --patch'
  alias grbm='git rebase -i --autosquash $(git_main_branch)'
  alias gfx='git commit --fixup $(git log $(git_main_branch)..HEAD --oneline| fzf| cut -d" " -f1)'

Another favorite is:

  alias gmru="git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count=50 refs/heads/ --format='%(HEAD) %(refname:short) | %(committerdate:relative) | %(contents:subject)'| fzf | sed -e 's/^[^[[:alnum:]]]*[[:space:]]*//' | cut -d' ' -f1| xargs -I _ git checkout _"

gmru (git most recently used) will show you the branches you've been working on recently and let you use fzf to select one to check out.