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Latest storyMay 17, 2026

Building on Git's Primitives

Inspired by Linus Torvalds' 2007 wish for a "git for bugs," a developer built git-native-issue — an issue tracker using git's four object types as its database. Issues are stored as commits, synced like code, and require no server or external database, making project issues as portable as code itself.

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My Short Explanation of Git

Git was created by Linus Torvalds partly to prevent security backdoors and ensure file integrity in large projects like Linux. At its core, Git is simpler than it seems — branches are just named pointers to commits, not complex...

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