You can interactively rebase after the fact while preserving merges even. I usually work these days on stacked branches, and instead of using —-fixup I just commit with a dumb message.

    git rebase -i --rebase-merges --keep-base trunk

This lets me reorganize commits, edit commit messages, split work into new branches, etc… When I add --update-refs into the mix it lets me do what I read are the biggest workflow improvements from jj, except it’s just git.

This article from Andrew Lock on stacked branches in git was a great inspiration for me, and where I learned about --update-refs:

https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-...