Configuration flag to allow fixuping commits authored not by me

[TheNeikos]

Thanks for the tool!

Its a huge help, but I often find myself in a pair-program situation where a colleague and I exchange a branch until its done. In those situations we do create fixups for eachother's commits.

Currently the tool does not allow this per-default, and I find that --force seems a bit... scary. I don't know exactly which safety aspects it disables.

My question thus is: Could there be a config flag that allows also fixuping other authors' commits?

[blairconrad]

@TheNeikos, this sounds great. There's even a note in the README to do this, "add smaller force flags to disable individual safety checks" (of course, there's also "implement force flag").

Scraping the code, it looks like force

• allows fixupping of others' commits,
• lets one operate on commits that aren't branches, and
• I couldn't find anything else

@tummychow aside from interfering with any response that you were going to make, I'm also here to advocate for whatever specific flag might come from this to have a corresponding configuration option, as I would be pretty likely to always specify --not-just-my-commits (or whatever).

I have never rusted before, but if you're into the feature and don't have time to implement, I'd take a stab at implementing...

[matthiasbeyer]

I'd like to add that this should also be configurable (via the normal git mechanisms, so git config ...), so a user is able to configure this per repository and does not have to think about passing the right flags 😉

[blairconrad]

I thought that's what I said, @matthiasbeyer. 😉

[matthiasbeyer]

Meh, my brain scanned too fast over your response. Sorry about that.

[tummychow]

yes, i would accept a pr for a new flag (eg --force-author) that specifically only does this. --force should maintain the existing behavior. git config option for forcing author would also be accepted as part of that pr.