I built a CLI that tells you where you left off in your git repo

Source: Dev.to

The problem

I have a bad habit of jumping between projects. One day I’m fixing a bug in one repo, the next day I’m adding a feature somewhere else, and by the time I return to the first one I have no idea where I left off. I end up running git log, git diff, git status, staring at the screen for minutes, and slowly remembering what I was doing. It happens every single day.

Introducing rewind

rewind is a small CLI tool you run inside any Git repository. It reads the current branch, recent commits, staged and unstaged changes, and sends that information to an LLM. The LLM returns a plain‑English briefing that tells you exactly where you left off and what’s unfinished.

That’s it—no IDE integration, no long‑running agent loops, just one binary, one command, and a single LLM call.

Extra commands

• rewind commit – Generates a conventional commit message from your staged changes.
• rewind ask "did I finish the auth flow?" – Ask any specific question about your current work.

Supported back‑ends

• Groq
• Gemini
• OpenAI
• Ollama (for a fully local setup with no data leaving your machine)

Installation

cargo install git-rewind

Source code

GitHub:

Feedback

I’d love feedback on the idea, the UX, or anything else. Still early days!