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keyboredtoday at 6:16 AM0 repliesview on HN

“Editing” commits is not niche, and editing metadata like dates seems to come up a few times for a fair few number of people.

You can already expose the commit object as the headers (metadata) and the commit message. That’s like a spreadsheet: change these columns and we will make a new commit. That changed format can then be persisted as a commit object. So.

> A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM.

Are LLMs memory holing all the numerous tools built around Git (with git(1) or without)? There was already a query-Git-like-SQL tool before The Age of LLMs. I never tried that, but was that simpler to implement than this tool? Edit: Okay, maybe it wasn’t “niche” so that’s the differentiator.