Show HN: Git–fiddle – Edit commit messages, author and timestamps during rebase

fiatjaf 9 years ago |

I think gitfiddle would be a great name for a service that let you quickly share unnamed, temporary git repositories, showing them to other people, then taking them down, without the friction of GitHub.

Like a git pastebin. In fact, I think gitbin would be better. gitfiddle should be a service where you could do all this, but would also offer ways of messing with the repository (doing interactive rebases, for example) from the web interface.

ics 9 years ago | |

Github Gists are close enough to what you describe sans the interactive rebase. You can create multiple files at once, all edits made in the web interface are committed to the repo, and all of it can be cloned and used with "real" git at any point.

fiatjaf 9 years ago | | |

Really? Are GitHub gists actual git repositories? Why no one says a line about it? What is the repo URL?

wingerlang 9 years ago | | |

> Are GitHub gists actual git repositories?

Yes

https://help.github.com/articles/about-gists/

detaro 9 years ago | | |

The "Embed: " button to the left of the embed URL is actually a dropdown, where you can switch to the clone URLs.

ashitlerferad 9 years ago | |

Just mail around the output of `git bundle`.

yarper 9 years ago |

How is this different from interactive rebases?

felixschl 9 years ago | |

The README does not do a good job at conveying this, but you essentially get to see this in your editor buffer:

```

pick <sha> <timestamp> by: <author>

[<message>]

```

This tool will then apply any changes to <timestamp>, <author> and optionally <message> to the picked commit.

fiatjaf 9 years ago | | |

That's what I always expect `git rebase -i` will do, but it doesn't.

ah- 9 years ago |

It would be nice to include installation instructions.

michaelmior 9 years ago | |

Agreed. _fiddle_seq_editor and the fiddle script (renamed git-fiddle) need to be on your PATH and executable.

amerine 9 years ago |

Thanks for sharing. This is neat.