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Work · March 29, 2018

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Version control for everyone

Greetings friends! We at Glitch have been hard at work on something very important to us: making software tools easier to use and more accessible. We all remember how hard it was to get started using version control (or maybe we've blocked it from our minds...) but Glitch Rewind makes it easy to get started. It's a fun, simple, and visual representation of your project's history through time. Though the interface is simple it still has the full power of git under the hood! Our Medium post: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g... Or try it out right…

Version control for everyone launched on March 29, 2018 with 11 votes, #898 of 2,954 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Glitch Rewind is a version control tool designed to make tracking project history simpler for beginners. It provides a visual, easy-to-understand interface for viewing changes over time while maintaining the full capabilities of Git underneath. The tool runs in the browser and targets users who find traditional version control systems intimidating or difficult to learn.

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Greetings friends! We at Glitch have been hard at work on something very important to us: making software tools easier to use and more accessible. We all remember how hard it was to get started using version control (or maybe we've blocked it from our minds...) but Glitch Rewind makes it easy to get started. It's a…

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