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Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)

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oftenwrong ◴[22 Jun 25 14:20 UTC] No.44347165[source]▶
Another little-known feature is git trailers:

https://alchemists.io/articles/git_trailers

These are key-value structures data that can be included on a commit when it is created. These are used by some systems for attaching metadata. For example, Gerrit uses this for attaching its Change-Id.

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cmrdporcupine ◴[22 Jun 25 16:55 UTC] No.44348367[source]▶
Side note: I really miss Gerritt from my time working at GOOG, but man is its deployment story kinda crap in the 2020s. I tried to run an instance locally and was hoping to integrate it with my github hosted repo ended up just frustrated.

Is there anything equivalent -- that handles tracking changes over commits etc better than GH -- that is more actively developed and friendly for integration with GH? I hate GH's code review tools with the heat of 10,000 suns.

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1. ezst ◴[22 Jun 25 17:37 UTC] No.44348691[source]▶
I think phabricator was doing a decent job at it while it lasted, don't know where they are at since IIRC it got abandoned and then forked.

The best way to track meta history is to have it baked into the VCS, so here Mercurial is king, and heptapod (a friendly fork of Gitlab meant to support Mercurial repos and concepts) apparently does a good job at it since it's used for Mercurial's own development (after they transitioned from mailing lists to Gerrit? to phabricator to Heptapod)