I think these esoteric workarounds required for what are trivial operations is why people use Jujutsu, which just has first-class "new", "squash" and "split" co

I think these esoteric workarounds required for what are trivial operations is why people use Jujutsu, which just has first-class "new", "squash" and "split" commands which can do all of the above intuitively, and more. Even more so if you use `jjui`. (jj of course has its own warts as well)