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

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577 points Delgan | 5 comments | 22 Jun 25 09:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.636s | source
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lucasoshiro ◴[22 Jun 25 16:24 UTC] No.44348168[source]▶
There are many "Git's coolest, most unloved feature", e.g.: bisect, pickaxe, reflog, range-diff, archive, annotated tags, etc. Sadly they are often forgotten as many people thing of Git only as a glorified Google Drive...
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1. steve_adams_86 ◴[22 Jun 25 18:45 UTC] No.44349288[source]▶
Ha, I expected to know the features you were going to list, but got surprise attacked by pickaxe. What the hell? I guess I shouldn’t be so confident
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2. lucasoshiro ◴[22 Jun 25 19:10 UTC] No.44349466[source]▶
Once I started to use it I almost never used blame anymore
3. raju ◴[22 Jun 25 20:25 UTC] No.44350001[source]▶
pickaxe isn't a Git command, rather, it's a set of flags that `git log` offers (specifically `-S` and `-G`).

Shameless plug: I recently did a webinar on how the pickaxe options are better than `git-blame`) that you can find here: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/webinar/142/level_up_your_git_g... (Note: It requires you to provide an email address).

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4. chrishill89 ◴[23 Jun 25 15:28 UTC] No.44356779[source]▶
"Pickaxe" most often means those options. But it's also a (apparently legacy) command alias for git-blame.
5. steve_adams_86 ◴[23 Jun 25 22:06 UTC] No.44360679[source]▶
Yes, this makes more sense now. Unfortunately I was already a heavy user of log, so then only new part is the term used for the flags. Somehow I've never seen it before