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

David Cournapeau david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Mon Apr 20 12:36:49 BST 2009


David Timothy Strauss wrote:
> 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.
>   

That's kind of what git rebase does with the interactive option. I think
it is important to make the difference between rebase the concept and
the rebase UI (which is different in git and bzr).

David



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