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I Kept Losing the "Why" Behind AI-Written Code, So I Built git why

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git blame tells you who changed a line and when. It never tells you why — especially when an AI agent wrote the change. git why is a zero-dependency CLI that stores the reasoning behind a commit as a git trailer, so the "why" survives a clone instead of dying in a chat transcript. Short version, if…

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  1. 2026-09-08 13:56 · DEV Community — AI
    I Kept Losing the "Why" Behind AI-Written Code, So I Built git why

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