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

added a warning for this in v0.2.0 signed commits now flag before the rewrite, it can know resign rebuilt commits with your key.

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife/releases/tag/v0.2.0

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

thanks

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

noted

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

it is a actually a screenshot, that's zorin's window transparency doing that

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

that was the idea

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

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

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

Ha ha fair. But yeah shelling out to git and reusing the original tree object was deliberate means file contents can't change even if I screw up elsewhere.

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

No idea not an emacs person does magit handle bulk author/date edits or just reword? genuinely curious

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

you're right, done

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

done

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

that's it

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

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

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

Appreciate it! pick a commit, stab it

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

https://imgur.com/a/V5EGCOw

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

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.