> Le 21 août 2025 à 12:51, Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: >> >>> In the end, I'd like us to learn from what people like about Jujutsu and >>> apply those learnings to Git. We won't be able to apply all learnings >>> from Jujutsu, as the workflow is quite different there due to the lack >>> of the index. But other things we certainly can apply to Git directly. >>> >>> Note: This patch series currently builds on the cherry-pick infra. >>> As such, when one hits a merge conflict one needs to `git cherry-pick >>> --continue`, which is quite suboptimal. I didn't want to overpolish this >>> series before getting some feedback, but it is something I'll fix in >>> subsequent versions. Furthermore, the command for now bails out in the >>> case where there's any merge commits in the history that is being >>> rewritten. This is another restriction that can be lifted in the future. >> >> Two comments. >> >> - You would want to honor notes.rewriteref yourself, as cherry-pick >> does not and that is deliberate [*]. >> >> - It is a sensible design decision to limit it to linear single >> strand of pearls history. "history reword <commit>" when >> <commit> can be reached from many branches along linear history >> that rewrites all these commits on these branches would be handy. >> There may need some way to say "these branches are protected, if >> 'history reword <commit>' needs to touch commits on any of these, >> abort" and things like that. >> >> >> [Footnote] >> >> * "history edit" (aka "rebase") is an operation that "edits" the >> history, once the edit finishes, the result is *the* history you >> want, and the previous one is to be discarded (except for in >> reflog). "cherry-pick" on the other hand is "I have this good >> thing on this development track, I want an equivalent _copy_ of >> it on _another_ track"---it merely is an easier and quicker way >> than typing the same thing yourself on top of the other track, >> and does not duplicate notes. > > Unless I'm ignorant, "git rebase" (aka "history edit") lacks essential > feature though: in addition to saying: get "this" history and rebase it > "there", one should be able to say: get "that" history, and rebase it > "here" (aka cherry-pick on steroids), that also would eliminate the need > for 'git cherry-pick <range>' that (poorly) duplicates rebase > functionality. But isn’t that git rebase --onto=<here> <that-upstream> <that> ? And why is that cherry-picking a range is a poor substitute [it is rather rebase that duplicates cherry-pick ;)]?