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Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by whateveracct »

danudey wrote: post #37
whateveracct wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

For what it's worth, I've used Claude to write a lot of smaller utility tools that I wouldn't normally have the time to sit down and implement, but which also solve straightforward problems. One small example is an extension for the `gh` cli where I give it a PR number and multiple branches and it cherry-picks that PR to those branches, or lets me know if some of the branches don't work. For managing multiple release…

but if you were sharing those utilities - even in a github gist! - why not write the English parts for human consumption yourself?

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by saghm »

whateveracct wrote: post #36
NichoPaolucci wrote: post #26

“It never reimplements git — it shells out to the system git CLI and rebuilds commits with git commit-tree, reusing each commit's original tree so file contents are provably never changed.” Glad the LLM noted this - I was worried this would reimplement git

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

git has a notoriously overcomplicated interface, so this is a scenario that I can honestly understand why someone wouldn't want to do it by hand

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by MattGaiser »

whateveracct wrote: post #36
NichoPaolucci wrote: post #26

“It never reimplements git — it shells out to the system git CLI and rebuilds commits with git commit-tree, reusing each commit's original tree so file contents are provably never changed.” Glad the LLM noted this - I was worried this would reimplement git

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM. Git is complicated and use case for this is rather niche.

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by YonathanTesfaye »

everybodyknows wrote: post #39
YonathanTesfaye wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

done

Unreadable in iPad Safari -- delayed popup darkens the screen and demands app install.

ah that's imgur. moved it to a github-hosted image should be fine now.

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by whateveracct »

saghm wrote: post #42
whateveracct wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

git has a notoriously overcomplicated interface, so this is a scenario that I can honestly understand why someone wouldn't want to do it by hand

but what about the writing English to describe it part? does English also have a notoriously overcomplicated interface lol

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by no-name-here »

YonathanTesfaye wrote: post #4
cautiouscat wrote: post #3

This looks cool! Are there screenshots available?

https://imgur.com/a/V5EGCOw

Thanks, but is that a photo of a screen instead of a screenshot and that’s why it looks cloudy/random splotches are brighter?

Regardless, it’s better than nothing, thank you.

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by [deleted] »

YonathanTesfaye wrote: post #2

I built a small Tauri app that just shows your commits in a table and lets you edit message/author/date directly, plus find & replace with regex if you need to fix a bunch at once. It backs up the branch before it rewrites anything doesn't touch file contents, just metadata.

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Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by whateveracct »

MattGaiser wrote: post #43
whateveracct wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM. Git is complicated and use case for this is rather niche.

i definitely used to write bash functions for this sort of thing tho. no GUI, but it was useful to do stuff like obscure my working hours (make it look like i did personal stuff after-hours. make it seem like stuff took all day instead of an hour..like adding sawdust to meat).

like you said, niche and probably unnecessary. and if i were to have published them (even in a gist!) i would have written the docs myself instead of forcing people to read LLM-speak. That's just lazy.

Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

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Post by voidfunc »

whateveracct wrote: post #36
NichoPaolucci wrote: post #26

“It never reimplements git — it shells out to the system git CLI and rebuilds commits with git commit-tree, reusing each commit's original tree so file contents are provably never changed.” Glad the LLM noted this - I was worried this would reimplement git

why can't anyone just do things themselves anymore? it's all LLM crap

Because I have better things to do with my time.
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