Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : git-revise Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Nika Layzell * URL : https://github.com/mystor/git-revise * License : MIT/X? Programming Lang: Python Description : handy git tool for doing efficient in-memory commit rebases & fixups
git revise is a git subcommand to efficiently update, split, and rearrange commits. It is heavily inspired by git rebase, however it tries to be more efficient and ergonomic for patch-stack oriented workflows. By default, git revise will apply staged changes to a target commit, then update HEAD to point at the revised history. It also supports splitting commits and rewording commit messages. Unlike git rebase, git revise avoids modifying the working directory or the index state, performing all merges in-memory and only writing them when necessary. This allows it to be significantly faster on large codebases and avoids unnecessarily invalidating builds. %% This is a nice shortcut over a bunch of complicated git commands that would be very useful for novice and advanced users alike. It completements git-rebase and similar, but is much simpler. It seems like it's implementing its own git parsing engine in the backend, so it doesn't have any dependencies, apart from git itself. I do not plan on maintaining this and would be happy if someone else stepped up. I mostly open this to document the package for other developers.
