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linsomniactoday at 3:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Not for everything, but things that I do have commit logs for it's a needle in a haystack problem of which repo the commit logs would be in. At work we have ~120 repos, at least a dozen of which I'm likely to have been in over a couple weeks. Other things are likely a ticket rather than a commit (running OS updates, switching to a new haproxy might be a commit from days or weeks earlier when done in staging but the commit log wouldn't show when it was activated in production).

It's very powerful having just a few sentences I can read about what was going on specifically on a given day.


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afioritoday at 8:05 PM

I think git keeps a per-branch history but in practice I have never seen it used