NAME

       git-absorb - Automatically absorb staged changes into your current branch

SYNOPSIS

       git absorb [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       You have a feature branch with a few commits. Your teammate reviewed the branch and pointed out a few
       bugs. You have fixes for the bugs, but you don’t want to shove them all into an opaque commit that says
       fixes, because you believe in atomic commits. Instead of manually finding commit SHAs for git commit
       --fixup, or running a manual interactive rebase, do this:

           $ git add $FILES_YOU_FIXED

           $ git absorb --and-rebase
             (or)
           $ git absorb
           $ git rebase -i --autosquash master

       git absorb will automatically identify which commits are safe to modify, and which indexed changes belong
       to each of those commits. It will then write fixup! commits for each of those changes. You can check its
       output manually if you don’t trust it, and then fold the fixups into your feature branch with git’s
       built-in autosquash functionality.

FLAGS

       -r, --and-rebase
           Run rebase if successful

       -n, --dry-run
           Don’t make any actual changes

       -f, --force
           Skip safety checks

       -w, --whole-file
           Match the first commit touching the same file as the current hunk. Use this with care!

       -h, --help
           Prints help information

       -V, --version
           Prints version information

       -v, --verbose
           Display more output

OPTIONS

       -b <base>, --base <base>
           Use this commit as the base of the absorb stack

USAGE

        1. git add any changes that you want to absorb. By design, git absorb will only consider content in the
           git index.

        2. git absorb. This will create a sequence of commits on HEAD. Each commit will have a fixup!  message
           indicating the message (if unique) or SHA of the commit it should be squashed into.

        3. If you are satisfied with the output, git rebase -i --autosquash to squash the fixup!  commits into
           their predecessors. You can set the [GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR][] environment variable if you don’t need to
           edit the rebase TODO file.

        4. If you are not satisfied (or if something bad happened), git reset --soft to the pre-absorption
           commit to recover your old state. (You can find the commit in question with git reflog.) And if you
           think git absorb is at fault, please [file an issue][].

           [GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29094904
           [file an issue]: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb/issues/new

CONFIGURATION

   STACK SIZE
       When run without --base, git-absorb will only search for candidate commits to fixup within a certain
       range (by default 10). If you get an error like this:

           WARN stack limit reached, limit: 10

       edit your local or global .gitconfig and add the following section:

           [absorb]
               maxStack=50 # Or any other reasonable value for your project

GITHUB PROJECT

       https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

AUTHOR

       Stephen Jung <tummychow511@gmail.com>

git-absorb 0.5.0                                   04/06/2023                                      GIT-ABSORB(1)