Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
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Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#2I 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.
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#3This looks cool! Are there screenshots available?
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#4This looks cool! Are there screenshots available?
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#5Extra points for the name.
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#6Extra points for the name.
Appreciate it! pick a commit, stab it
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#7Hmmm, this seems to be making easy something you normally should not do.
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#8Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#9Hmmm, this seems to be making easy something you normally should not do.
Agreed mostly. The intent is local cleanup before you push like fixing a wrong author email across a batch or dates from a machine with a bad clock
Re: Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
#10Hmmm, this seems to be making easy something you normally should not do.
So, exactly like a knife? Generally we don't want to cut people open, but when we need to do it, like during surgery, a sharp knife sure helps.