git-absorb
Hacker ApprovedGit fixup tool in Developer tools
Moves staged changes into the earlier commits they belong to, saving manual rebasing. Caveat: it still often picks the wrong commit.
Moves staged changes into the earlier commits they belong to, saving manual rebasing. Caveat: it still often picks the wrong commit.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Automatic fixups for commit stacks
“I also love git-absorb for automatic fixups of a commit stack.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Git Rebase for the Terrified” “vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need” “is handy to add formatting changes into the right commit after commits already happened”
Comment from 27 Dec 2025 in “Pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken” Keeps git history tidy
“Leaving a really tidy git history is satisfying.”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Reviewing code you didn't write” “Add in git-absorb and the heavy-lifting is taken care of.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “GitHub Stacked PRs” Works well, widely praised
“So many people don’t know about git-absorb! It’s fantastic.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Git Rebase for the Terrified” “git absorb works surprisingly well”
Comment from 11 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need”
What people said
14 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I can also tell git to do the first thing automatically (git absorb, I believe it's inspired by jj).”
“Leaving a really tidy git history is satisfying.”
“it's smarter than that, but as a daily user of git absorb it still gets things wrong fairly often”
“if you use git absorb more you'll get it”
“git-absorb won't merge commits into anything that precedes a merge”
“Add in git-absorb and the heavy-lifting is taken care of.”
“So many people don’t know about git-absorb! It’s fantastic.”
“I also love git-absorb for automatic fixups of a commit stack.”
“I've had enough problems with git-absorb and git-fixup that I prefer to do it myself.”
“is handy to add formatting changes into the right commit after commits already happened”
“git absorb works surprisingly well”
“left the repo in a half-applied state”
“committing and rebasing are so quick that this will reduce perhaps 30 seconds to one minute”
“vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.