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gitsh

An interactive shell for git

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An interactive shell for git

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-07 15:10:38 UTC to 2018-11-19 15:47:18 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 72018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 132018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 19

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 72018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC101
May 142018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC000
May 212018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC000
May 282018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 42018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 112018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 182018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 252018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 22018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 92018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 162018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 232018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 302018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 62018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 132018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 202018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 272018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 32018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 102018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 172018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 242018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 12018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 82018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 152018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 222018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 292018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 52018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 122018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 192018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I basically live in vim and tmux when I'm doing development work. Tmux IMO basically turns a terminal from a handy utility to a fully productive workspace. I switched to ripgrep for my grepping needs, I find it fast and the syntax and output coloring handy. Just found fastmod recently, https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod. Very handy for doing bulk substitutions of strings in project directories - it can prompt with a diff for every change and do full regexes, so you can try out tricky things and make sure it isn't doing anything crazy before you let it make 500 changes throughout your repo. Also a fan of gitsh, https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh. Helps out with using Git on the command line just the right amount IMO - just avoiding the git prefix, tab completion, and a little syntax highlighting, instead of trying to redo the wh
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ole interface. I don't use it that much, but jq, https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ is really handy for slicing and dicing json data without diving into the complexity of writing actual programs. And on OS X, homebrew is indispensable for actually managing all of your CLI programs. I also have found this Google Drive cli handy, https://github.com/odeke-em/drive. If you want to sync some but not all of your Google Drive files, and only push and pull on command instead of continuously, it's great.
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