Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git

Re:Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git by WorldMaker on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:51PM (#22204356)

The interactive tools exist outside of rebase. You can also split commits apart as you work on them with for example `git add -i` without needing to rebase.

I've met junior developers I'd never trust to get rebase right, but interactive add was an important tool to teach them.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git by PascalPrecht on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:34AM (#22209814)

`git add i` is indeed powerful and lets you interactively craft your index before you create a commit. It doesn't enable you to split up an existing commit though.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git by WorldMaker on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:04PM (#22226137)

Interactive hunk splitting the index maps to the mental model of "splitting the work in progress commit". That may be all a developer needs in a "rebase never" workflow.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git by PascalPrecht on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:09AM (#22233408)

Certainly can not disagree :)

I'm not trying to convince anyone here. By now I've sold over 230 copies and I"m getting really positive feedback. So it must be useful to someone.

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