History editing (Was: Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core?)

[David Timothy Strauss]

Ian makes a good point: "rebase" isn't even the best at cleaning up history. What might be more useful is a shelve-based approach of taking the final diff, dissecting it into coherent changes, and committing those.

(1) Get a fresh branch.
(2) Apply the net diff generated from the dirty-history feature branch.
(3) Shelve all changes.
(4) Work through unshelving the changes and committing them.
(5) bzr send