Git-knife
Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Details
- External ID
- 49259611
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Git-knife
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 166
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9616935483870968
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- spreadsheet editor for git commits
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a terminal or GUI interface for batch-editing Git metadata, which primarily wraps Git CLI plumbing commands (like git-filter-repo or rebase execution) inside a spreadsheet-style tabular UI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: git-rebase (plain git), SQL-like Git query tools, Traditional git commit editing tools
Concerns raised: Multi-author history not supported, LLM comments cause prompt injection and repeated mistakes, Commit hash conservation breaks with metadata changes, Comments dilute critical context for multiple agents, Overwrites subsequent commit dates during interactive rebase
Feature requests: Drag and drop UI for git rebase, Change commit order visually, Modify which files belong to previous commits, Expose commit metadata as spreadsheet-like interface, Preserve correct author vs commit dates during rebase
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
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- git-release-manager · github · 2026-09-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- git-release-manager · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- GitBalance · hn · 2025-11-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- commit-miner · github · 2026-09-17 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A live feed of commits authored by Claude Code across GitHub · hn · 2026-02-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- 48-digit prime numbers every git commit · hn · 2026-01-01 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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