git-why

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Chat history is where most of the reasoning behind a commit actually lives: why an approach was chosen, what alternative got rejected, what constraint ruled out the simpler option. None of that survives once the conversation is gone, even though git log still has the commit. git-why is a Claude Code skill that closes that gap by writing the reasoning directly onto the commit itself, as a git notes entry.

Git on Prateek Sharma

git-why