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Graftfork — rebase your fork's patches onto each upstream release · Show HN

The problem is real and named well: "Keep your changes. Keep getting updates." Anyone who has maintained a fork feels that sentence.
The Show HN link lands on /try, and the page says "Trying a fork is closed until Graft opens, for everyone" — then, a few lines later, offers "Try a real one, in one click". I couldn't tell whether I can try it or not, and that's the one thing the page exists for.
The "What it can't do" section (no push, no write token, public repos only, what's kept for 30 days) is the best trust copy I've read today. It's below the fold, after the confusion.
Pricing is fair and clear (Free, Premium $12/month for automatic conflict resolution), but a stranger needs to see one conflict resolved before $12 means anything.
First fix: make the first screen of /try a finished, shareable result for one of the example forks — kept / dropped / conflicting changes, tests green — so the visitor sees the product working even while live tries are closed.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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