85 stories tagged git, newest first.
38 points by trendschau | 36 comments
A Typemill knowledge-hub article arguing for storing development tasks as Markdown files in Git so AI coding agents can read them alongside code and docs.
59 points by lumbroso | 32 comments
Landing page for ADRs4AI, a Git-versioned framework, template, VS Code extension, and iOS app for recording human–AI design deliberations as decision records.
292 points by cxr | 205 comments
Roku developer blog post announcing that its developer docs, sample apps, SDK and tooling repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab, with guidance on updating URLs.
53 points by Klaster_1 | 20 comments
GitHub engineering blog post on migrating Git repositories to Azure using per-reference quorums and object-storage-backed virtual replicas to scale reads and writes.
122 points by farlight | 101 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet presenting commit and developer statistics for the Linux 7.2 kernel release, one of the busiest development cycles ever.
27 points by hn9zmdcaou | 27 comments
Simon Willison link post on Anthropic's write-up about building a custom Git alternative after code changes merged per day rose from 2,500 to 30,000.
30 points by hellerve | 7 comments
Mark Dominus blog post proposing a better way to track a Git repo's deployment release history than creating thousands of release tags, based on ZipRecruiter experience.
55 points by evakhoury | 13 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus proposing a better way to record a Git repo's deployment and release history than creating thousands of tag refs.
114 points by thclpr | 22 comments
Phloem is an interactive web visualization that renders a Git repository's commit history as a glowing, organically growing branching structure resembling a slime mold.
4 points by drew0670 | 1 comments
GitHub repository for github-workflow, a minimal Rust terminal UI built with Ratatui for managing GitHub repositories and branches.
77 points by theanonymousone | 33 comments
A personal wiki card explaining how large a Git commit is on disk, covering zlib-compressed loose objects and packfiles.
10 points by handfuloflight | 4 comments
Landing page for Spinal, an upcoming low-latency tool for exploring codebases and their history, with a GitHub/email waitlist signup.
221 points by gagan2020 | 171 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Git operations, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.
8 points by wbnns | 3 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Git operations, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.
205 points by geoffbp | 172 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing the open beta of Artifacts, a Git repository service usable from Workers, and a competition to build a Git platform on Cloudflare.
536 points by chmaynard | 502 comments
Blog post by Scott Chacon on GitButler's Butler's Log arguing that Git 3.0's switch to SHA-256 as the default hash will be a costly mistake.
3 points by cachrevolt | 0 comments
GitHub repository for machtiani, an open-source tool; the linked page text was not captured.
103 points by yedhukrishnan | 58 comments
A personal blog post arguing that writing detailed commit descriptions explaining what and why serves as a thinking tool, reconsidered in the era of AI coding.
65 points by handfuloflight | 8 comments
GitHub repository for walgit, a single-binary Git server serving smart HTTP from an object-store bucket with a GitHub Enterprise Server facade.
322 points by alentred | 107 comments
GitHub repository for git-bug, a distributed, offline-first bug tracker that stores issues inside a Git repository.
140 points by lostmsu | 54 comments
Radicle's security disclosure describing two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes, affecting all released versions.
54 points by faithraven | 37 comments
Blog post describing lesser-known git ignore mechanisms (like .git/info/exclude and a global excludes file) for ignoring personal untracked files without committing .gitignore changes.
172 points by chmaynard | 94 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet previewing the Git 2.56 release and the upcoming changes expected in Git 3.0.
606 points by signa11 | 266 comments
A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.
737 points by Animux | 283 comments
GrapheneOS Mastodon post saying Google replaced Git tags for some Android source code with Google Drive downloads requested via Google Forms, violating GPLv2.
331 points by meetpateltech | 104 comments
Cursor research blog post by Vicent Martí about scaling Git to handle very large repositories.
562 points by tomasreimers | 408 comments
Cursor changelog post announcing Origin, an early-beta code hosting service with repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync for paid plans.
586 points by dhruv3006 | 368 comments
Ask HN thread asking whether to switch from GitHub due to recent outages, with commenters suggesting alternatives like Forgejo and GitLab.
754 points by tomzorz | 266 comments
GitHub changelog post announcing that stacked pull requests, which can be merged together as a stack, are now in public preview.
410 points by Synthetic7346 | 192 comments
Mindgard blog post disclosing an unpatched Cursor IDE flaw where a malicious git.exe in a workspace root is executed automatically without user interaction.
409 points by turbocon | 287 comments
Lalit Maganti's essay arguing that git's experimental history command (reword, split, fixup) deserves more attention as a lighter alternative to jj.
553 points by FergusArgyll | 167 comments
A short blog post explaining three ways to ignore files in Git: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and the global ~/.config/git/ignore file.
338 points by jsve | 242 comments
Blog post by Sumner Evans arguing against the Conventional Commits standard, saying it encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.
327 points by maxnoe | 205 comments
GitHub status page incident report for degraded service affecting pull requests, issues, Git operations and API requests.
460 points by ildari | 217 comments
Archestra blog post about AI-generated spam contributions to open source repos and how they used Git's --author flag to stop AI bot PRs on GitHub.
1420 points by indrora | 768 comments
A merged GitHub pull request in microsoft/vscode titled 'Enabling ai co author by default', which adds a Copilot co-author trailer to commits by default.
1189 points by homebrewer | 505 comments
GitHub issue reporting that the string HERMES.md in git commit history causes Claude Code to bill requests to extra usage instead of the Max plan quota.
577 points by icy | 367 comments
Tangled blog post arguing that git hosting forges should be federated, since git is decentralized but issues, PRs and collaboration are not.
424 points by bo0tzz | 89 comments
Wiz Research blog post detailing CVE-2026-3854, a critical flaw in GitHub's internal git infrastructure enabling remote code execution on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server.
508 points by tigerlily | 443 comments
Introductory chapter of Steve Klabnik's Jujutsu tutorial explaining what the jj version control CLI is and why git users should care.
847 points by ezekg | 475 comments
Documentation landing page for GitHub Stacked PRs, a private-preview feature and gh stack CLI for splitting large changes into small, dependent pull requests.
2140 points by grepsedawk | 459 comments
Blog post by Ally Piechowski describing five git commands to find churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns before reading a codebase.
770 points by enriquelop | 225 comments
GitHub repository publishing over 8,600 Spanish laws as Markdown files, with each legislative reform recorded as a Git commit.
432 points by mandel_x | 360 comments
GitHub repository for memento, an MIT-licensed tool and GitHub Action that records AI coding (Codex) sessions alongside each git commit.
649 points by spencerldixon | 222 comments
A blog post sharing a shell one-liner for deleting merged git branches, found in CIA internal developer docs leaked in WikiLeaks' Vault7.
900 points by cheeaun | 331 comments
Vincent Driessen's blog post about Microsoft Learn publishing a distorted copy of his 2010 Git branching model diagram, 15+ years after he created it.
399 points by todsacerdoti | 141 comments
Gentoo Linux news post announcing repository mirrors on Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub, with instructions for submitting pull requests via the AGit approach.
583 points by meetpateltech | 544 comments
Launch blog post by Thomas Dohmke announcing Entire, a $60M seed-funded developer platform for AI agents, and its open source CLI that ties agent context into Git.
349 points by Nezteb | 266 comments
GitHub status page incident report for degraded service affecting Issues, Actions and Git operations.
340 points by TonyStr | 152 comments
A blog post describing the author's reimplementation of git, covering how objects, trees, commits and hashing work.
742 points by birdculture | 426 comments
Andrew Nesbitt's blog post arguing that package managers like Cargo repeatedly use git repositories as registry databases and run into scaling problems.
373 points by wilhelmklopp | 303 comments
GitHub status page incident report about Git operation failures affecting the service.
398 points by linhns | 177 comments
A blog post by Bartek Płotka introducing lazygit, a terminal UI for Git, and explaining how he uses it in his workflow.
596 points by chmaynard | 393 comments
Blog post explaining that any server with SSH access can host git repositories, showing how to clone over SSH and allow pushes to the checked-out branch.
318 points by steveklabnik | 224 comments
Steve Klabnik's blog post explaining why he believes the jj (Jujutsu) version control system has a future, drawing parallels to his early bet on Rust.
447 points by mustaphah | 136 comments
GitHub issue on SWE-bench reporting loopholes where agents can access future repository state, like git history and commit messages, that leak solutions during evaluation.
403 points by Bogdanp | 342 comments
A beginner-oriented tutorial for the Jujutsu (jj) version control system that assumes no prior experience with Git or other version control.
327 points by Bogdanp | 452 comments
A blog post guide introducing the Jujutsu (jj) version control system for busy developers, covering setup, revisions, changes, bookmarks, and conflicts.
357 points by dgl | 147 comments
A blog post explaining CVE-2025-48384, a Git vulnerability where carriage return handling allows remote code execution via git clone --recursive on Unix-like systems.
493 points by Delgan | 115 comments
A 2022 blog post by Tyler Cipriani explaining git notes, a little-used Git feature for attaching metadata to commits.
344 points by dshacker | 267 comments
Blog post by Daniel Sada, part of a career series, recounting Microsoft Office's migration from Source Depot to Git and his work on developer experience.
563 points by immortaljoe | 236 comments
GitLab engineering blog post explaining how fixing a 15-year-old Git function bottleneck cut repository backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes.
418 points by lnkl | 90 comments
GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon describing git config settings that core Git developers change and that arguably should be defaults.
894 points by mixto | 280 comments
Landing page for Beej's Guide to Git, a free online guide to the Git version control system offered in HTML and other downloadable formats.
409 points by birdculture | 227 comments
GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon explaining why Git's help.autocorrect setting waits only 0.1 seconds before running a mistyped command.
334 points by Anon84 | 190 comments
Oh Shit, Git!? is a website giving plain-language fixes for common Git mistakes, such as undoing commits or recovering lost work.
362 points by 8organicbits | 72 comments
A personal blog post explaining how the author uses Git's includeIf directive to manage separate Git identities and signing keys per directory.
394 points by p4bl0 | 81 comments
Documentation homepage for Mergiraf, a syntax-aware Git merge driver that resolves merge conflicts using knowledge of language syntax trees.
566 points by nateb2022 | 79 comments
GitHub repository for delta, a Rust-based syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output.
416 points by striking | 243 comments
GitHub repository for git-absorb, a tool that automatically creates fixup commits for staged changes, like git commit --fixup but automatic.
582 points by hardwaregeek | 453 comments
Blog post by GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon explaining how GitHub became the dominant code hosting platform.
1823 points by __0x1__ | 341 comments
Truffle Security blog post explaining how data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories on GitHub can remain accessible to anyone.
470 points by thunderbong | 104 comments
Blog post recounting the origin story of Git, starting from Linux's scaling problems in 1998 and Linus Torvalds' path to creating it.
393 points by zaik | 195 comments
A blog post on the mmap(blog) site about 'enlightenmentware', software like UNIX, Git, Emacs, Boost.Graph and Bazel that changed how the author thinks about programming.
1454 points by ulrischa | 381 comments
Homepage of Bruno, an open-source, offline-only API client that stores request collections as plain-text Bru files in a folder for Git-based collaboration.
767 points by aiw1nt3rs | 259 comments
Radicle web app view of the Radicle repository on a seed node, a peer-to-peer, open-source code collaboration network built on Git.
343 points by ingve | 107 comments
Julia Evans blog post compiling popular git config options gathered from asking people on Mastodon about their favourite settings.
414 points by ChrisArchitect | 113 comments
GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon introducing a three-part series of lesser-known Git tips, tricks, and newer features.
628 points by karagenit | 359 comments
A 2019 blog post by David Thompson showcasing a detailed GOV.UK Git commit message as an example of how commit messages document a codebase.
363 points by jethronethro | 94 comments
GitHub repository for GitUI, a fast terminal user interface for git written in Rust.
347 points by tambourine_man | 215 comments
Julia Evans blog post comparing an intuitive mental model of git branches with how git actually represents branches internally.
491 points by soheilpro | 257 comments
Julia Evans blog post explaining confusing git terms like HEAD, detached HEAD, fast-forward, and staging area, based on answers from Mastodon.
331 points by todsacerdoti | 88 comments
Julia Evans blog post explaining where git stores file versions inside the .git/objects directory, investigated with short Python programs.
574 points by lemper | 212 comments
GitHub repository for Jujutsu (jj), a Git-compatible distributed version control system designed to be both simple and powerful.
421 points by donutshop | 330 comments
Personal blog post in which the author explains why they are leaving GitHub after using it since age eleven.