git-knife v0.1.0

git-knife v0.1.0 🔪

A clean desktop GUI for editing git commit metadata directly — message, author date,
committer date, author/committer name & email — like editing a table. It wraps the real
git CLI and rebuilds commits with commit-tree, reusing each original tree, so file
contents are never changed — only metadata.

Highlights

• ✏️ Edit any commit's message, author/committer name, email, and dates (with timezone)
• 🔎 Bulk find & replace across commit metadata — literal or regex (great for fixing a wrong email across a whole history)
• 👀 Preview every change before it's applied
• ♻️ Automatic backup ref before each rewrite + one-click restore — nothing is unrecoverable
• 🔪 Transparent, opt-out signature note (refs/notes/git-knife)
• 🔒 Merge commits are locked (linear history only, this release)

Downloads

OS	File
Windows	.msi (or the -setup.exe)
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	.dmg
Linux	.AppImage (portable) or .deb

⚠️ Unsigned builds. No code-signing cert yet, so macOS shows an "unidentified developer"
prompt (right-click → Open) and Windows shows SmartScreen (More info → Run anyway). Safe to
dismiss — or build from source.