Git AI
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Recommended for recording which code AI agents wrote, with metadata kept in git notes that survive rebases.
Recommended for recording which code AI agents wrote, with metadata kept in git notes that survive rebases.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Preserves and searches AI sessions
“I use https://usegitai.com/ and https://ctx.rs/ to preserve and search them.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved” “you can commit your chat sessions in git notes”
Comment from 1 May 2026 in “The end of "Just ask Sarah"” Better than scanning history or Selvedge
“The fact that git notes survive rebases is genuinely something Selvedge doesn't match.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Show HN: Selvedge – an MCP server that captures why AI agents change code” “Definitely should beat my current "scan the history" approach.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Show HN: Git for AI Agents” Likely to become a common standard
“we see some early work such as the Git AI Standard v3 maybe starting to create some common protocols”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Introducing the Agents tab in your repository” “Git AI uses the prompts that way. I think that model will win out.”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?” Seen as essential by early users
“we'll be incredulous that we ever operated without it”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Tracking AI Code with Git AI” “Git AI is awesome -- very needed.”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Tracking AI Code with Git AI”
Other version control systems people recommend
The four most recommended other version control systems, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git | 814 | 503 | 62% | 13 | 15 yrs42 owners | — |
| Jujutsu (jj) | 335 | 106 | 76% | 13 | 1 yr21 owners | Approved |
| Mercurial | 121 | 43 | 74% | 12 | 19 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| jj (Jujutsu) | 115 | 37 | 76% | 12 | 1 yr7 owners | Approved |
| Git AIThis page | 13 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
14 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use https://usegitai.com/ and https://ctx.rs/ to preserve and search them.”
“The interface feels clean and fast.”
“I probably won't use this tool since I already have a flow that works for me”
“I am all for extremely granular control of agents.”
“Definitely should beat my current "scan the history" approach.”
“The fact that git notes survive rebases is genuinely something Selvedge doesn't match.”
“you can commit your chat sessions in git notes”
“If you want more metadata going forward”
“Git AI uses the prompts that way. I think that model will win out.”
“git-ai is decidedly not trying to replace the SCMs”
“It's not in the git commit history, that's the cool part!”
“we see some early work such as the Git AI Standard v3 maybe starting to create some common protocols”
“Git AI is awesome -- very needed.”
“we'll be incredulous that we ever operated without it”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.