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Practice. You'll get better and faster. I do it tens of times daily and each fixup takes ten or fifteen seconds.

Yep. I have that practice too and i thought that was good enough but with git-autofixup and my posted alias i am down to under one second. So it will save you 1-14 sesconds of your life with every fixup you do... unless it cannot be done automatically. Try it and let us know what you think :-)

Challenge accepted.

I tried git-absorb (git-autofixup is Perl? Installing things with CPAN needs sudo? Sorry... I don't have a good Perl situation and don't care to have one.) and it did not immediately work correctly. Maybe git-autofixup is better; idk. Also I misunderstood; I'm expected to `git add` before using these tools - after that, the commit/rebase only takes me a few seconds; I already knew what commit it was bound for when I staged the changes.

git-autofixup can also be installed by simply downloading the script[1], giving it execute permissions, and putting it somewhere in your PATH. It needs perl 5.8.4+, which is very old, and only depends on the standard library. Git ships with a Perl interpreter on Windows.

If there are any staged changes, git-autofixup only fixes those up and ignores any unstaged ones; otherwise it tries to autofixup all unstaged changes.

[1]: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup/blob/master/git-aut...

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