🕰️ git-time-machine

Undo ANY git mistake in 3 seconds with a beautiful TUI

Never lose work again. git-time-machine makes git reflog visual, interactive, and actually usable.

✨ The Problem

You just:

• 🔥 Force pushed and lost commits
• 💥 Did git reset --hard by accident
• 🗑️ Deleted a branch you needed
• 🤦 Rebased wrong and broke everything
• 😱 Can't remember what you did 5 minutes ago

Current solution: Dig through git reflog, copy cryptic hashes, pray you picked the right one.

Better solution: git-time-machine 🎯

🚀 Demo

Navigate your git history like a time traveler. One key to restore.

📦 Installation

Cargo (Recommended)

cargo install git-time-machine

From Source

git clone https://github.com/dinakars777/git-time-machine
cd git-time-machine
cargo install --path .

Homebrew (Coming Soon)

brew install git-time-machine

🎮 Usage

# Launch in any git repository
git-time-machine

# Show all reflog entries (default: last 50)
git-time-machine --all

Controls

🎯 Features

• ✅ Visual Timeline - See your entire git history at a glance
• ✅ Relative Timestamps - "5m ago", "2h ago", "yesterday"
• ✅ One-Key Restore - Press Enter, done
• ✅ Vim Keybindings - j/k navigation
• ✅ Beautiful TUI - Built with Ratatui
• ✅ Lightning Fast - Written in Rust
• ✅ Zero Config - Just works™

🔥 Use Cases

Scenario 1: Accidental Reset

# Oh no! You did this:
git reset --hard HEAD~5

# No problem:
git-time-machine
# Navigate to "6m ago", press Enter
# All commits restored ✨

Scenario 2: Deleted Branch

# Deleted the wrong branch
git branch -D feature-branch

# Recover it:
git-time-machine
# Find the last commit on that branch
# Press Enter, then:
git checkout -b feature-branch

Scenario 3: Bad Rebase

# Rebase went wrong
git rebase main
# Conflicts everywhere...

# Undo it:
git-time-machine
# Go back to before rebase
# Press Enter, start over

🛠️ How It Works

git-time-machine is a beautiful wrapper around git reflog that:

1. Parses your reflog history
2. Displays it in an interactive TUI
3. Lets you preview and restore any state
4. Executes git reset --hard <hash> when you press Enter

It's just git under the hood - no magic, no risk.

🎨 Why This Will Go Viral

1. Solves a universal pain - Everyone screws up git
2. Visual + Interactive - Makes reflog actually usable
3. Instant gratification - Save yourself once = hooked
4. Beautiful demos - TUI looks amazing in GIFs
5. Trending tech - Rust + TUI tools are hot right now

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! This is a weekend project that could become something big.

Ideas for v2:

• Show file diffs inline
• "Panic mode" - undo last N minutes
• Branch visualization
• Stash recovery
• Search/filter commits
• Export timeline as JSON

📝 License

MIT © Dinakar Sarbada

🌟 Star History

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