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It solves a problem that can be solved better by good habits and a solid understanding of git.

• burntsushi 2y ago
  That suggests you don't understand what git-absorb does. git-absorb takes a pattern of good habits and makes one part of it faster and easier.
  • gorjusborg 2y ago
    Sure, I guess that's possible. All I see is a tool that guesses where to aggregate a fixup commits when I can't be bothered to view and think about that myself.
    • burntsushi 2y ago
      About grep, all I see is a tool that looks for lines matching a query when I can't be bothered to just read the file myself. I can trivialize useful software too. See how ridiculous you sound? That's what software does! It makes our job easier. It's true that git-absorb guesses, but since you clearly haven't used the tool, you don't know how good it is at guessing. Moreover, false positives and false negatives are not the same in this scenario. A false positive would be very annoying, and I don't think that's ever happened for me in the years I've been using git-absorb. False negatives happen more frequently, but it's fine, because it tells you and then you just fall back to what you would have done manually for whatever it couldn't find a commit for.