Modify change that has dependencies

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Hi!

I found the approach of Pijul interesting, and I started experimenting with it. Sorry if my question is not very wise, but how is it possible to rewrite some change in history that has dependent changes?

My experimental use case is:

I have a bunch of projects, most of them have a shared codebase. I want to organize them as a monorepo with different channels to avoid repeating myself.

I have the following imagine history:

A -> B -> C -> D (main)
       -> E -> F (channel)

I want to change B change (e.g., fix a minor bug or change dependency versions in Cargo.yaml, etc.), but I want to keep all other changes (C, D, E, F).

Is it possible to achieve this with Pijul? If yes, how can it be done?

Thanks in advice :slight_smile:

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Hi! Welcome here.

This isn’t yet possible, but I’ve been working on things like this recently, I would hope this will finally come before the end of this year.

Some things that “sound easy” for other version control systems, like rewriting history, are sometimes much much harder to implement in Pijul than in others. Some things are also many times easier, like commutative patches.

3

Nice to hear that! Thanks for the reply

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Just curious: why would you want to change B, instead of creating a change G and adding it to both channels? That would seem more logical to me. The notion of history is less important in pijul than in git, the way I see it.