GittinToIt: Version control for writers

My newest vibecoded app has a terrible name, GittinToIt, but a great use case: Version control for writers.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe I do too much work on the wrong one. Or maybe I change one a way I shouldn't? What can I do. 

Enter: version control.

Version control gives you an undo bottom.

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.

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. 

I have more to say about this, but I'll finish this post later.

Git it on Github.

—Brady Dale
October 20, 2026

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nice :)