Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Retcon – A macOS Git client for instantly rewriting history
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Retcon – A macOS Git client for instantly rewriting history launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. - sjurba/rebase-editor
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JSON Query▲152On a recent screen share with our designer at my FT job, I watched as our designer struggled with checking out a repository. It was painful because existing Git clients are confusing and nearly user hostile. Us software engineers are used to Git and terrible UX, but it shouldn't have to be that way. So, I wanted to make something better. Been working on this one for a while now, and while it's still very early stages, it's stable enough that I feel comfortable sharing it with the world :) I wanted a few things to be really easy and clear: - Merging between branches is explained before you do…
2015 · satishmaha.com · its alternatives →
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'rebaser' improves on 'git rebase -i' by adding information per commit regarding which files it touched. - README.md
2015 · gist.github.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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Hey HN! I built a proof-of-concept for AI memory using Git instead of vector databases. The insight: Git already solved versioned document management. Why are we building complex vector stores when we could just use markdown files with Git's built-in diff/blame/history? How it works: Memories stored as markdown files in a Git repo Each conversation = one commit git diff shows how understanding evolves over time BM25 for search (no embeddings needed) LLMs generate search queries from conversation context Example: Ask "how has my project evolved?" and it uses git diff to show actual…
2025 · 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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GitUp is Git the way it should be
2015 · gitup.co · its alternatives →
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An Interactive History of the Git Distributed Version Control System
2021 · git-history.jpalmer.dev · its alternatives →
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Native cross-platform full feature terminal-based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. - MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Personally, I think the JJ VCS (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj) hit a point some time in this past year where I find it hard to find a great reason to continue using git. Over the years I've cobbled together aliases and bash functions to try to improve my git workflow, but after using jj, which works with ~any git repo and integrates great with Github repos, all of the workflow issues I ran into with git are not only solved, but improved in ways I couldn't manage with simple scripts. One example is the op log, which lets you go to any point in your repo's time and provides…
2025 · 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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Hey HN, I built a VS Code extension that lets you do Git things without memorizing Git commands. You know what you want to do, move this commit over there, undo that thing you just did, split this big commit into two smaller ones. Git Navigator lets you just... do that. Drag a commit to rebase it. Cherry-pick (copy) it onto another branch. Click to stage specific lines. The visual canvas shows you what's happening, so you're not guessing what `git rebase -i HEAD~3` actually means. The inspiration was Sapling's Interactive Smartlog, which I used heavily at Meta. I wanted that same experience…
Feb 2026 · gitnav.xyz · its alternatives →
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GitCity▲113GitCity transforms your GitHub contribution history into an interactive isometric 3D city skyline. Every commit builds a skyscraper. Free, open-source, embeddable in any README.
Apr 2026 · gitcity.natrajx.in · its alternatives →
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Visual GitHub management directly from a graphical interface
Jun 2026 · 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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I started an experiment to let a WASM-powered webapp interact with a local git repo and see how well this works. It turns out, it works pretty well! I made it into a "git wrapped" tool that shows you when you committed the most, and what languages and files you most touched. Despite the scary prompt when you use the filesystem API everything happens locally and your code stays private. (You can of course also just try it on cloned public github repos). Let me know what you think!
Dec 2025 · gitrewind.dev · 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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