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Git-regret πŸ’€ β€” I Finally Finished the CLI That Reads Your Shame

Ishant gupta on June 02, 2026

This is an official submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge. Try It Yourself: https://ishantgupta30.github.io/git-regret/...
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Ingo Steinke, web developer

I always thought git blame was named funnily and inappropriately at the same time. But I like git regret even more.

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Ishant gupta

Honestly git blame feels like a courtroom. Git regret feels like therapy. Both necessary 😭

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Kushan

Digital graveyard is doing a lot of heavy lifting and I felt that personally πŸ™„πŸ™„

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Ishant gupta

πŸ’€ we don't talk about what's buried in mine. some repos are meant to rest in peace

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Echo

The 'initial commit - hackathon night' β†’ 'giving up for tonight' β†’ 18 months later is the most honest repo origin story I've ever read. The graveyard isn't a problem to hide, it's context you'll wish you had later.

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Ishant gupta

Honestly this is the nicest way anyone has ever described my abandoned code 😭 'context you'll wish you had later' β€” i'm stealing this the next time someone judges my commit history

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harsh

The README that just said 'TODO: write this' sent me. we've all been here. glad you finished it

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Ishant gupta

haha honestly the README was the most accurate documentation i've ever written β€” it perfectly described the state of the project 😭

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Brrrrr

Lol

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Ishant gupta

πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

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karan

Ran this on my own repo and immediately regretted it. Exactly as advertised πŸ’€ πŸ₯²

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Ishant gupta

The tool working exactly as intended is somehow the saddest outcome☠️