Support `dolt rebase`

[mitar]

I am exploring dolt but I am observing one feature missing: how to redact data already committed? How to change an existing commit to remove sensitive data which has been by accident pushed to it? Another problem is if you get GDPR "remove my data" request. Is there any plan to add that?

Also, if this would be added, my understanding is that also commit hashes of later commits would change, same as in git, yes?

Similarly, there is no --amend to commit.

[andy-wm-arthur]

We currently support this through dolt filter-branch, here are the docs https://docs.dolthub.com/reference/cli#dolt-filter-branch

[mitar]

Interesting. Does this work also for documentation files? And just to be sure, this changes commit hashes after rewriting, yes?

[andy-wm-arthur]

Filter branch works on table data only, and yes, it rewrites each commit and creates a new commit

[aleclarson]

Does filter-branch allow for squashing past commits?

[zachmu]

No, filter-branch gives you a commit history 1:1 with the original one. There's no squash functionality.

True rebase functionality is coming, but is currently unscheduled. If this is stopping you from adopting dolt, please let us know.

[timsehn]

@fulghum is working on this now.

[fulghum]

As of Dolt 1.30.5, we now support interactive rebases through the SQL interface.

See our announcement blog post for more details and let us know if you'd like to see additional rebase features supported.