# Git AI

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Git AI and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for recording which code AI agents wrote, with metadata kept in git notes that survive rebases.

## Why people recommend it

- Preserves and searches AI sessions (2 comments): "I use https://usegitai.com/ and https://ctx.rs/ to preserve and search them." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922136)) "you can commit your chat sessions in git notes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979399))
- Better than scanning history or Selvedge (2 comments): "The fact that git notes survive rebases is genuinely something Selvedge doesn't match." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057222)) "Definitely should beat my current "scan the history" approach." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064799))
- Likely to become a common standard (2 comments): "we see some early work such as the Git AI Standard v3 maybe starting to create some common protocols" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789326)) "Git AI uses the prompts that way. I think that model will win out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217194))
- Seen as essential by early users (2 comments): "we'll be incredulous that we ever operated without it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878935)) "Git AI is awesome -- very needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879866))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Git](https://hackerapproved.com/p/git.md): 814 recommend
- [Jujutsu (jj)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jujutsu.md): 335 recommend
- [Mercurial](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mercurial.md): 121 recommend
- [jj (Jujutsu)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jj.md): 115 recommend
- [Fossil](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fossil.md): 106 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Git AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/git-ai/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).