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Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation

Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation

8 comments

·November 18, 2025

Gitlogue is a CLI that turns your Git commits into a typing-style replay.

It visualizes diffs line by line, shows the file tree, and plays back each edit as if it were typed in real time.

Key points

• Realistic typing animation

• Syntax-highlighted diffs

• File-tree view

• Replay any commit

• Self-contained CLI

Demo video is in the README.

Repo: https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue

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aunderscored

This looks really cute. I wonder if it'd help with reviews when people have strange PR's

beezlewax

Exactly my thought on this.

rglover

This is insanely helpful for debugging other people's code or code you've long since forgotten.

throwaway127482

How is it more helpful for debugging compared to just looking at the git patch? As far as I can tell, this is meant to be more of a cool presentation type thing, rather than something to assist with development

eichin

Yeah, sounds like something I'd use along with Gource for presentations - gource is great for "show off our progress in the last year" in a Very Visual way (without actually being all that useful, but sometimes you need some non-technical visualizations.)

iJohnDoe

Actually, looks really cool! Creative idea.

alwi4

I like it! It's a neat idea :)

mannanj

is it able to actually discern the order in which the code was written? would be cool if not to augment it or create a parallel to to actually track this in the manner the code author actually did to write the code - I wonder which functions he/she went to, how he/she wrote code, how long they paused to think, and even what they were thinking!