{"blyg":"0.4","id":"1vnjn058a36aapmyc6byv8h37j","kind":"thread","origin":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/","page":"t/1vnjn058a36aapmyc6byv8h37j/","author":{"name":"Aneesh Sathe","url":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/"},"created":"2026-10-21T05:57:21Z","updated":"2026-10-21T05:57:40Z","version":1,"content_md":"![[56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq]]\n\nnice :)","content_html":"<blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq\" data-blyg-version=\"1\" data-blyg-origin=\"https://bradydale.com/blyg/\">\n<h1>GittinToIt: Version control for writers</h1><p class=\"blynger-image blynger-image-standard\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://bradydale.com/blyg/media/71d6ec3e545ec3739c2942828efa082dce3b02b855ffb2266c8a88cc7d48dea7.jpg\"/></p><p>My newest vibecoded app has a terrible name, <a href=\"https://github.com/BradyDale/GittingToIt\">GittinToIt</a>, but a great use case: Version control for writers.</p><p>I've got a novel that I've been working on for over a decade. Mostly I don't touch it, but sometimes I come back to it. I'm always baffled by how I have its files managed.</p><p>Then there's short stories I've written that only ex-girlfriends have ever seen. The fact that they have seen them might be why they are exes! Regardless, these stories still make me come back. I want to believe in them. I work on them sometimes.</p><p>Here's something I do: I create new versions. I'll make a copy. Change something about it. Give it a different name. Different file format. Who knows how far I get with it? Maybe I never finish what I wanted to do. Months later. Years later. I come back. Why are their three copies.</p><p>Maybe I do too much work on the wrong one. Or maybe I change one a way I shouldn't? What can I do. </p><p>Enter: version control.</p><p>Version control gives you an undo bottom.</p><p>A version control client can also force you to log why you've made a copy of a piece of writing, what you did to and which one is the most up to date.</p><p>GittinToIt is a client that is built on Git, the version control system used by software developers (the software that Github is built on) but opens up its power specifically for us non-technical writers. It makes it easy to put Git into a file of writing, track changes over time, log what you worked on from day to day and, crucially, it gives you a way to document it when you make a copy of file so you can work on a slightly different version of the piece. With that documentation, you can make sense of it later. </p><p><b>I have more to say about this, but I'll finish this post later.</b></p><p><a href=\"https://github.com/BradyDale/GittingToIt\">Git it on Github.</a></p><p>—Brady Dale<br/>October 20, 2026</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>nice :)</p>\n","content_hash":"sha256:8c6fe5a8f06db2387d742f2cf6c4cd367baac18420861cf2b616ab9f96ecca2e","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq","version":1,"origin":"https://bradydale.com/blyg/","cited":{"source":"Brady Dale's blyg","author":"Brady Dale","excerpt":"GittinToIt: Version control for writers My newest vibecoded app has a terrible n…","url":"https://bradydale.com/blyg/t/56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq/","retrieved":"2026-10-21T05:57:40Z"}}],"stub_of":{"origin":"https://bradydale.com/blyg/","id":"56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq","version":1,"cited":{"source":"Brady Dale's blyg","author":"Brady Dale","excerpt":"GittinToIt: Version control for writers My newest vibecoded app has a terrible n…","url":"https://bradydale.com/blyg/t/56r46avr9ejt8ztzf0nymrmytq/","retrieved":"2026-10-21T05:57:40Z"}},"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-10-21T05:57:40Z","note":null}]}