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OK, I see your original comment, no need to be rude. If you're working on a computer that struggles with 'making a commit' and 'editing a text file', I feel like you're working in an environment that's going to be very frustrating when writing code.

Are you thinking about rebasing through an IDE? IDEs are uniformly terrible at git.

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I just don't like downvotes because people take comments out of context.

I am not thinking about rebasing trough an IDE. Try rebasing in Chromium's repository, it's simply not fast. The thing I asked for is something that would auto-fix the entire commit histories in cases such as the Requests repository, the suggested use of rebase is too tedious and slow. Has something still remained unclear?

> Try rebasing in Chromium's repository, it's simply not fast

The intent for a tool which could do this quickly is unclear. Rebasing millions of commits will be slow, also rebasing published history will also generate a lot of extra paperwork.

Writing a utility to sort a rebase todo by message and change the later commits with the same message to be fixups is trivial.

Late to the party, but it would be trivial to use `git rebase -i` and a decent editor to fix the Requests commit history. I just gave it a go locally and got good results with less than a minute's editing.

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