'git inject' – amend commits other than HEAD
'git inject' is a git alias (see code at the bottom). It is similar to 'git commit --amend', but it allows you to 'inject' your changes into commits further back in history (using 'rebase'). If you're as pedantic as I am about the git history you're about to push into master (as far as I can control it, I strive to keep each commit conceptually coherent), you'll often come to a situation where you have a modification that really belongs in an older commit. It takes a few git commands to stash other changes away, commit the modification, then interactively rebase over some previous commit,…
'git inject' – amend commits other than HEAD launched on June 12, 2015 with 71 votes, #834 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Git inject is a git alias that allows developers to amend commits earlier in history, similar to git commit --amend but for non-HEAD commits. It uses interactive rebase to inject changes into older commits while keeping the rest of the history intact. This tool is designed for developers who maintain clean, conceptually coherent commit histories and need to add modifications to previous commits without manually stashing changes and performing multiple rebase steps.
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'git inject' is a git alias (see code at the bottom). It is similar to 'git commit --amend', but it allows you to 'inject' your changes into commits further back in history (using 'rebase'). If you're as pedantic as I am about the git history you're about to push into master (as far as I can control it, I strive to…
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