collapsing stuff

[Andrew Bennetts]

Monty Taylor wrote:
> As a following up to the IRC discussion earlier... the reason I find
> this work flow useful (collapsing revsions into a single larger
> revision) is for code review. I can be working on something for a while,
> commit, build, test, etc. (say - I'm using bzr-builddeb and have to
> commit before every package build attempt) But then I'm done and I want
> to show someone what I did and get them to ok it before I push. I don't
> want to ask them to look through 20 revisions, I want to show them the
> final patch, right?
> 
> It's not about _hiding_ work, per se. In fact, it would be stellar if
> all of the commit messages remained intact.

Have you seen what “bzr send” does?  It in fact already does this.  It will
generate a human-readable diff of all the changes combined into one patch, but
still include the full history in machine-readable form.

-Andrew.