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Life & fun · October 26, 2020

Git-Retext

Git-Retext launched on October 26, 2020 with 33 votes, #900 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Git-Retext is a tool launched in 2020 for managing and organizing text-based content. It's designed for users who work with text files and want better version control and retrieval capabilities. The product combines git functionality with text processing features, making it useful for writers, developers, and anyone managing large amounts of text data. It appeals to those seeking a streamlined approach to text file management and organization.

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Dan Aloni

Posted October 23, 2020 ‐ 5 min read This is the second post in a series to expand on various utilities I wrote to assist my work with Git. Some of these utilities are located in a repository on GitHub called misc-gitology . In the previous post I mentioned the desire to present a clear Git history to reviewers. Sometimes, we are reviewing our own unpublished Git history and would like to do some polishing here and there before pushing it to a remote repository. In the process of reviewing, we are most likely looking at diffs. What if it was possible in an environment-independent way, to just edit the diff? In the pre-cursor to the invention of Git, developers used emails (and some…from blog.aloni.org

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