gg absorb

Automatically distribute staged changes to the most appropriate commits in your stack.

gg absorb [OPTIONS]

Options

• --dry-run: Preview actions without changing commits
• -a, --and-rebase: Rebase automatically after creating fixups
• -w, --whole-file: Match and absorb by whole file rather than hunks
• --one-fixup-per-commit: At most one fixup per commit
• -n, --no-limit: Search all commits in the stack (not just last 10)
• -s, --squash: Squash directly instead of creating fixup! commits
• -f, --force (alias --ignore-immutable): Override the immutability guard. By default, gg absorb refuses to run if any commit in the stack is merged or reachable from origin/<base> — because it cannot tell ahead of time whether git-absorb will target those commits. --dry-run skips the guard so you can preview safely. See Core concepts · Immutable commits.

Examples

# Preview before applying
gg absorb --dry-run

# Absorb and finish with rebase
gg absorb --and-rebase

# Heavy refactor across many files
gg absorb --whole-file --no-limit