python bindings and GUI integration for reposurgeon

[KOLANICH]

Project description

https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon is an awesome tool by ESR. Unfortunately its CLI is hard to use and error prone.

For example, in order to rewrite a commit into a merge commit one has to:

• identify the commits first in a standalone git gui app
• find a way to get their reposurgeon ids by making a selector for them (it seems I cannot select them by their hash)
• show a list of them, copy it into a text editor
• select the ones you need from the list
• inspect them
• from the inspection result (which prints a lot of unneeded info, it'd be niceto have a command to print just parents) take only the info you need (list of previous commits, from)
• make a command doing what you need reparent <ids from from>, <ids to add>, <target commit id> --use-order

It is too labour intensive for a single editiing op and is too error prone. It would be better if one has to select the commit to transform into a merge one and the parent commits in a git GUI client.

Relevant Technology

• https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon
• gui toolkits
• Git GUIs internals

Complexity and required time

Complexity

• [x] Intermediate

Required time (ETA)

• [x] Medium work - A week or two
• [x] Much work - The project will take more than a couple of weeks and serious planning is required

Categories

• [x] Frontend/UI
• [x] Developer Tooling
• [x] Design/UX