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Your alias seems like a completely unecessary complexity. If you want to meld new changes into your branch head you can just alias “git commit --amend”, you don’t need that mess.

Absorb will find the commits to fix up for each change in the working copy, it doesn’t just merge everything into the head.

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I see, the reason it’s that long complicated alias was that I didn’t want to open up the editor to change the commit every time I updated. “git commit —amend” does that.

I read the rough how it works and it now makes sense. I might give it a try. Thanks!

Seems like you can add —no-edit and get the same behavior, now I can delete that alias. Thanks again :)

(Edit: typo)

That is correct, and there is a `--edit` to revert that, so my personal alias is to `git ci --amend --no-edit` such that by default it just merges the staging into the HEAD, and then tacking on `-e` will open the commit message in an editor to expand it.

You can also set `EDITOR=true` for that `git commit --amend` if you forget about `--no-edit`.

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