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This is great. Is there a tool to do this? I mean, can I edit the times and the authors and create a history that I need with some software? Or did the author

This is great. Is there a tool to do this? I mean, can I edit the times and the authors and create a history that I need with some software? Or did the author painstakingly go in and manually look up all the dates and make the commits? And then roll back for an error and just keep going? The issue is how would you change a single commit from 8 commits ago if there was an error there? And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head?

giancarlostoro 7y ago
> The issue is how would you change a single commit from 8 commits ago if there was an error there? Rebase would be my first hunch. There's plenty of GUI based git editors, as long as it's all historically in order it's all fine and dandy.
- dhritzkiv 7y ago
  Rebase and then force-push to reset the remote
shakna 7y ago
My approach would be to generate the git repo using a script of some kind. It wouldn't be particularly difficult, and then fixing a change is just a rebuild.
- pintxo 7y ago
  Would that be a constituting script in this case?
Buetol 7y ago
> This is great. Is there a tool to do this? Here's a script doing the same thing but with another text [1]. In this case, we're storing each version as plain text files and then we make the git repo by compiling all of them. > And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head ? Like this for example [2]. [1]: https://github.com/regardscitoyens/historique_reglements_AN/blob/master/bin/make_git_repo https://github.com/regardscitoyens/historique_reglements_AN/... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050131/http://visualisiert.net/parteiengesetz/index.en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050131/http://visualisie...
he_the_great 7y ago
No tools, just manual lookup. There is now a history rewrite based on the feedback happening.

giancarlostoro 7y ago

> The issue is how would you change a single commit from 8 commits ago if there was an error there? Rebase would be my first hunch. There's plenty of GUI based git editors, as long as it's all historically in order it's all fine and dandy.

dhritzkiv 7y ago
Rebase and then force-push to reset the remote

shakna 7y ago

My approach would be to generate the git repo using a script of some kind. It wouldn't be particularly difficult, and then fixing a change is just a rebuild.

pintxo 7y ago
Would that be a constituting script in this case?

Buetol 7y ago

> This is great. Is there a tool to do this? Here's a script doing the same thing but with another text [1]. In this case, we're storing each version as plain text files and then we make the git repo by compiling all of them. > And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head ? Like this for example [2]. [1]: https://github.com/regardscitoyens/historique_reglements_AN/blob/master/bin/make_git_repo https://github.com/regardscitoyens/historique_reglements_AN/... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050131/http://visualisiert.net/parteiengesetz/index.en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050131/http://visualisie...

he_the_great 7y ago

No tools, just manual lookup. There is now a history rewrite based on the feedback happening.