Re: What's in git.git

Tony Luck [off-list ref] writes:

So is there an easy way in git to take the series of commits
from a topic branch, make a new branch with all those commits
as just one commit ... with an open editor on the concatenated
commit comments (If there were just typo fixes the comment
from the first commit would apply, but sometimes the follow-on
commits would have substantive changes).

I do not have a script to do so but my guess is that would be a
20-30 line shell script.  Use cherry to find which ones to pick,
run diff-tree on them to extract patches, run apply --index on
each of them in turn, and dump "git log master..topic" to your
editor and you are done.  The editor would have the commit log
to be edited while working tree and the index would have a
ready-to-commit tree with all the changes applied.