git-absorb

Absorb staged changes into matching commits

$ git absorb

$ git absorb --and-rebase

$ git absorb --dry-run

$ git absorb --base [HEAD~5]

$ git absorb --force

$ git absorb --verbose

git absorb [options]

git-absorb automatically creates fixup! commits for staged changes, matching each hunk to the appropriate commit in your branch history. It is a port of Facebook's hg absorb tool for Mercurial.
The workflow is: stage changes with git add, run git absorb to create fixup commits, then either run git rebase -i --autosquash manually or use --and-rebase to do it automatically. By default, absorb searches within the last 10 commits.

-r, --and-rebase

Run git rebase --autosquash automatically after creating fixup commits.

Show what would be done without making changes.

Use specified commit as base of the absorb stack.

Skip safety checks when creating fixup commits.

Display extra information during execution.

Match changes to commits that last touched the file.

Print help information.

Print version information.

~/.gitconfig

Configure `absorb.maxStack` to control how many commits absorb will search through (default: 10).

Only considers staged changes (git index). Cannot absorb changes that span multiple original commits. New code (not modifying existing lines) cannot be absorbed. Safety checks may prevent absorption in some cases; use --force to override.

Git-absorb was created by Stephen Chung as a Rust port of Facebook's hg absorb command for Mercurial. It became popular in stacked diff workflows where maintaining clean commit history is essential.

git-rebase(1), git-commit(1), git-branchless(1)