GLglobular-toast·Sep 22, 2025
git-autofixup is better and easier to install: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup
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git-autofixup
create fixup commits for topic branches
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8 sourcesYep, and even the more powerful fixup workflow where you can essentially amend commits other than HEAD. I do it via git-autofixup: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup
In GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoyingThere seems to be an alternative implementation called git-autofixup: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup
Has anyone compared the two?
In Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automaticI assume you refer to https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup. I have also used it, and its ok but not perfect.
In Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automaticGit-autofixup: create fixup commits for topic branches
1 points · Open discussionThe equivalent to "hg absorb" for Git is https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup
In In Praise of Stacked PRsSomewhat (or possibly greatly) related:
Are tools like git-absorb safe/reliable? Git-absorb is a port of hg absorb:
"Essentially, when your working directory has uncommitted changes on top of draft changesets, you can run `hg absorb` and the uncommitted modifications are automagically folded ("absorbed") into the appropriate draft ancestor changesets. This is essentially doing `hg histedit` + "roll" actions without having to make a commit or manually make history modification rules."
I haven't (yet) wrapped my head around the algorithm. I get that an algorithm can "recollate" a series of commits in a way that yields no commit conflicts, but that's not the same as rearranging and combining commits into a sequence of semantically coherent atomic commits.
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https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup
In Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patchesgit-autofixup can also be installed by simply downloading the script[1], giving it execute permissions, and putting it somewhere in your PATH. It needs perl 5.8.4+, which is very old, and only depends on the standard library. Git ships with a Perl interpreter on Windows.
If there are any staged changes, git-autofixup only fixes those up and ignores any unstaged ones; otherwise it tries to autofixup all unstaged changes.
[1]: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup/blob/master/git-aut...
In Correct Git commits with git-autofixup