Release amend tool

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• Move https://github.com/yakshaveinc/linux/blob/master/bin/amend-pr.sh scripts out of the depth into separate repo

  • Use https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon to carve out history with amend-pr.sh to be at the top of the repo
    • Find frontend for reposurgeon that allows to record interactive choices into script (like https://github.com/phord/git-split)

• Package amend as a snap

  • Setup CI/CD to avoid snap reupload
    • Create reproducible snap builds to compare with uploaded
      • Release ksykaitai to patch timestamps in .snap squashfs archive

[abitrolly]

See also yakshaveinc/linux#25

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reposurgeon works by loading the whole repo into memory, then filtering and modifying commits according to user commands, then saving the repo into new dir.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html