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24 alternatives to Retcon
Effortlessly rewrite Git history
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I really like interactive rebases in Git, but always thought they took too much time and effort. There are tools that make them a lot nicer, like magit or GitUp, but they still ask a lot of you. So over the last two years I built Retcon. In the app, you can manipulate history directly (e.g. drag a commit to a different spot) at all times; even when there’s a conflict waiting for resolution, you can always keep making changes. You're not asked to first make a rebase TODO and then commit to it. So you no longer need to think too much ahead: you just make the changes you have in mind, see what…
2024 · retcon.app · its alternatives →
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Quickly browse the history of a file from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or any git repository
2019 · githistory.xyz · its alternatives →
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I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not 'fluent' with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year. The notable features are: - Move commits up and down, fixup, drop - Rename commits from the editor (without having to stop for a reword during the rebase run) - Visualize modified files along commits - 'Explode' a commit ,creating a commit for each modified file (a thing I found myself doing quite often)…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I described Git scraping last year: a technique for writing scrapers where you periodically snapshot a source of data to a Git repository in order to record changes to that …
2021 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →
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REBASE is a short and complete ebook that takes your productivity to the next level and gives you full control of your commit histories by teaching you the concepts of rebasing in Git.
2020 · rebase-book.com · its alternatives →
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gitconvex▲66A web based UI client for managing git repositories
2020 · gitconvex.com · its alternatives →
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Visualize a GitHub repository
Jun 2026 · gitstock.org · its alternatives →
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Digest Diff▲105Let your commit history tell its story using the power of AI
2023 · digestdiff.com · its alternatives →
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Visual GitHub management directly from a graphical interface
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tempo▲118Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist
2024 · maoyama.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. - sjurba/rebase-editor
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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'git inject' is a git alias (see code at the bottom). It is similar to 'git commit --amend', but it allows you to 'inject' your changes into commits further back in history (using 'rebase'). If you're as pedantic as I am about the git history you're about to push into master (as far as I can control it, I strive to keep each commit conceptually coherent), you'll often come to a situation where you have a modification that really belongs in an older commit. It takes a few git commands to stash other changes away, commit the modification, then interactively rebase over some previous commit,…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Monitor, sync & back up your git repos from the menu bar
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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An introduction to version control with Git
2016 · learnenough.com · its alternatives →
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Hunk-by-hunk and line-by-line staging for git, designed for building clean commit history! Writing code is messy. Git history doesn't have to be. During development we experiment, refactor, backtrack, and fix mistakes. If every step ends up as a commit, the history becomes noise. A curated history turns that process into a clear sequence of logical changes. git-stage-batch helps you build that history incrementally by letting you stage changes hunk-by-hunk or line-by-line, shaping commits around meaning instead of the order the edits happened.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Edit commit messages, authors, and timestamps during git-rebase - felixSchl/git-fiddle
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Revert back to good old GitHub Homepage. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows
2018 · git-fork.com · its alternatives →
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