Advocacy vs. git

[Augie Fackler]

On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Martin Geisler wrote:

> Hans Meine <meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
>
>> On Saturday 25 April 2009 16:22:34 Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> If you want to do more (reorder changes, drop some changes), you can
>>> also take a look at my histedit extension [1] which is directly
>>> inspired by Git's interactive rebase. Word of warning: it doesn't  
>>> yet
>>> play nice with mq. Then again, it's replaced most of my uses of mq,
>>> so I don't care about that as much as I thought I would.
>>>
>>> [1] http://bitbucket.org/durin42/histedit/
>>
>> It would be great if there were some docs. Alas, the above repo does
>> not contain a README, and while
>> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HisteditExtension
>> exists, it's more or less useless.
>
> You could search for 'git rebase --interactive' -- you'll find  
> hundreds
> of pages that explain what it is -- it seems to be one of the most
> popular Git commands.
>
>> Motivation: I do not know git rebase --interactive, so I do not know
>> what histedit does at all.
>
> The histedit extension allows you to quickly decide on the fate of a
> bunch of changesets by editing a text file in your editor. You make  
> some
> commits

There's now a readme that explains this in the histedit repo:

http://bitbucket.org/durin42/histedit/src/tip/README