pi-treebase

A session history management tool that combines the functionality of the base /tree command with something similar to git rebase --interactive.

Installation

pi install npm:@grayolson/pi-treebase

Usage

First, use the /treebase and navigate with the normal tree session view to choose the destination to rebase history to.

Then, use an interactive editor of flattened history to select what to Pick (keep verbatim), summarize with Low or High importance, or Drop entirely.

A new synthetic history branch is then created from the root you selected, interspersing actual picked history entries with generated summaries.

Summaries are generated by a model with full context of the entire branch (except dropped entries), but with instructions to only record a summary of the relevant section of the entire linear history into each summary block so that summaries makes sense when interspersed with picked entries.

Limitations

Currently, the only supported operation is to "rebase" directly back in time to a parent node. Rebasing one branch past a junction on top of of another branch is not yet supported.

Hacks

• Implementing this required (as far as I could tell) mutable access to pi's SessionManager, which is usually exposed as only ReadonlySessionManager to command handlers. I did a bad and just as-casted it to the writable version. I'm not sure exactly how bad the implications of this are.
• Using a custom message types as a summary message doesn't behave super well with normal tree navigation, so I hackily pushed native branch summarization messages for this purpose by hooking a private method.

I will likely try to file issues/PR the ability to do these non-hackily once the bigrefactor lands.

Slop alert

Warning, this is moderately slop clanker code. It's been cleaned up a bit and I reviewed what I felt were the important parts, but do with that what you will.