Hi Andrej, Thanks for your quick response!
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 07:39:22PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Sat, 1 May 2021, at 14:48, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > git-autofixup creates fixup commits from changes in the worktree. This > > can save the tedious work of amending fixes into the appropriate > > commits during codereview. > > > > Changes to consider are parsed out of git-diff(1) and git-blame(1) is > > used to assign hunks to commits since the revision given on the > > commandline, which will typically represent a topic branch. Then it > > creates fixup commits to be used with git rebase --autosquash. > > > > - There is another program called git-absorb which performs > > essentially the same function as git-autofixup but is written in Rust > > instead of Perl. Since Perl is much easier to package in Debian I went > > for the latter ;) > > Well, OTOH git-absorb already *is* in Debian :) Could have fooled me, since the RFP is still open, haha. Guess I should have checked in sid too :) Another upside of the Perl implentation though: backporting to buster is downright trivial. Though I guess with the bullseye release around the corner that's not quite so important now. > > - I plan to maintain this package myself, though I am looking for a > > sponsor. > > I can probably sponsor it. Or you can ask in pkg-perl (cc'ed). That'd be awesome, I'd be happy to put it under pkg-perl team-maintanance as well though. --Daniel