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

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577 points Delgan | 1 comments | 22 Jun 25 09:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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knallfrosch ◴[22 Jun 25 16:48 UTC] No.44348325[source]▶
Git notes is redundant since you need a higher-level project management tool to track features anyway. Roadmaps, feature hierarchy and non-technical details. Think of any big tracker or Jira.

I think that's fine. Unix philosophy is to focus on one thing and do that well.

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1. chrishill89 ◴[23 Jun 25 15:33 UTC] No.44356827[source]▶
There are many uses for Git notes even though you might use a project management tool. Particularly all those things which are relevant for developers only, or that the developers can use as the data source for "higher-level" goals.