Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Retcon
Rewrite Git history with drag-and-drop and ⌘Z
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Retcon launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Gaac▲122Use your Github repo as a drag-and-drop CDN for Free
2022 · gaac.vercel.app · 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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Visualize a GitHub repository
Jun 2026 · gitstock.org · its alternatives →
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Gitlogue is a CLI that turns your Git commits into a typing-style replay. It visualizes diffs line by line, shows the file tree, and plays back each edit as if it were typed in real time. Key points • Realistic typing animation • Syntax-highlighted diffs • File-tree view • Replay any commit • Self-contained CLI Demo video is in the README. Repo: https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue
Nov 2025 · github.com · 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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'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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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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ShadowGit▲20Hey HN, I built ShadowGit a while back to automatically commit code every minute to a hidden git repo (.shadowgit.git). Original goal was to easily rollback when AI tools break things. But I discovered something interesting: this minute-by-minute history is perfect context for AI assistants. So I built an MCP server that lets Claude/Cursor query this history using native git commands. The results surprised me: Before: Claude would read my entire codebase repeatedly, burning 15,000+ tokens to debug issues. After: Claude runs `git log --grep="drag"` finds when drag-and-drop worked,…
2025 · shadowgit.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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2022 · heytoaster.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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Bump your git tag to the next version, easily. 👊
2018 · 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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Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. - sjurba/rebase-editor
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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