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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Git Peel because I kept doing the same annoying dance: run `git log` on one file, copy a hash, run `git show`, scroll through a wall of diff noise... just to find one old version of a file I half remembered changing last week.
So I built the thing I actually wanted. Open a file, run one command, and instantly see every commit that touched just that file. You get relative timestamps, a live preview of any old version, and a one click restore (with a confirmation step, so you can't accidentally nuke your current work).
A few things I cared about while building this:
- **Zero dependencies.** It just uses the git you already have installed.
- **Under 200 lines of code.** No bloat, no background process, nothing weird quietly running in your editor.
- **Per file, not per repo.** No digging through a hundred unrelated commits to find the one you actually need.
- **Open source (MIT).** Code's right here if you want to poke around: https://github.com/DaltonVector-...
It's a small extension for a small but recurring annoyance, the kind of thing that saves you a couple minutes, a dozen times a week.
Would love for you to try it and tell me what's missing. One thing I'm genuinely unsure about: would people want branch level history too, or does per file cover most real use cases?
Thanks for checking it out 🙏
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About Git Peel on Product Hunt
“Time-travel your code, right inside VS Code”
Git Peel was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. A powerful VS Code extension to browse commit history, preview previous file versions, and restore with one click. Time-travel through your codebase.
Git Peel was featured in Open Source (68.6k followers), Software Engineering (42.7k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 119.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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