mq gui = answer to all the collapse / rebase woes

[Neal Becker]

Augie Fackler wrote:

> 
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> 
>> As it appears, git's interactive rebase with squashing is what causes
>> the "wow" factor for many people.
>>
>> As has already been pointed out by many, what we really want is an
>> easy way to rearrange and combine changesets, and mq already does that
>> - but using it is more work than just arranging lines in a text editor
>> (which is what git does).
>>
>> Perhaps this problem could be solved once and for all by hacking up a
>> gui that imported a revision range to mq patches for rearrangement,
>> allowing you to review, amend and squash to your hearts content, in
>> search of that perfect patch series?
>>
>> Probably too late to suggest it for GSoC, or perhaps it's too small a
>> project in the first place...?
> 
> I mentioned it in a different thread, but you might want to take a
> look at my histedit extension, which took its inspiration from git
> rebase --interactive.
> 
> http://bitbucket.org/durin42/histedit/
> 
> 
I looked at this link a little, but I couldn't find any doc.  If you really 
want people to try this out, at least I (for one) would need to know, what 
is it and how do I use it.