google/git-appraise on Hacker News

You can also do code reviews in pure git: https://github.com/google/git-appraise I used git bug before but found I missed being able to edit tickets with a Markdown editor. So I built this: https://github.com/LoumTechnologies/ticketry

comment by imagent · 2026-09-25 · in Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

I'm particularly fond of the concepts within git-appraise, gits back to the federated foundations https://github.com/google/git-appraise (unmaintained)

comment by verdverm · 2026-08-20 · in The August 17 outage

This was a really intriguing project that became Google abandonware. https://github.com/google/git-appraise The idea is to use git-notes for issues & PRs, because git is already distributed by design and these elements of SDLC centralized…

comment by verdverm · 2026-07-24 · in Gleam Is Now on Tangled

…[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239804 [3] https://github.com/aaiyer/bugseverywhere [4] https://github.com/google/git-appraise [5] https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11/19/git-notes-gits-coo... ,…

comment by mananaysiempre · 2026-05-01 · in If I could make my own GitHub

Seems as a good idea to pitch git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise I'm not part of the project at all, but this is the only offline code review system I've found.

comment by iveqy · 2025-11-30 · in Migrating Dillo from GitHub

There is also https://github.com/google/git-appraise which uses git-notes and a plugin (with UI server included)

comment by verdverm · 2025-03-03 · in Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto

…to integrate with one another. This seems backwards to me since Git is already decentralized. [1]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by imiric · 2025-01-19 · in Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge

…exactly the project I was looking for. Saved me a bunch of time and headache trying to find this: https://github.com/google/git-appraise I didn't have to know the exact search words or phrases, I didn't have to filter through multiple…

comment by verdverm · 2025-01-15 · in Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results

…if Git had that ability from the start, if the web UI concept would've taken off as it did. [1]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by imiric · 2024-01-31 · in Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint

…more searching finds projects like git-appraise. [1] [0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes [1] https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Terr_ · 2024-01-08 · in "LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"

…[2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db... [3] https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by AceJohnny2 · 2023-12-05 · in Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

…files in a folder? Bug tracking in git: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug Code review in git: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by tazjin · 2023-11-03 · in Cloudflare API Down

…your review to the git repo, and others can use `git appraise list` to see open pull requests. https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/docs/tuto... A trivial git-hook could be setup for automating email notifications:…

comment by matt-robertson · 2023-08-11 · in Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git

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story by pabs3 · 2023-08-11 · 162 comments

You can do that with git-appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by procrastitron · 2022-08-07 · in Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline

I know about Google’s gerrit. I now found https://github.com/google/git-appraise , there seems to be a plethora on the issue and pr tracking side. Then the other day there was a generic/abstraction layer to write CI that abstracte over…

comment by spockz · 2022-08-02 · in OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

Well there is git-appraise[1] used by Google which stores it's data in the git repo itself. [1]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by tionis · 2022-06-23 · in Show HN: Crocodile - Better code review for GitHub

…of the original ones) https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit https://github.com/google/git-appraise (I think this one is newest and I probably never tried it)

comment by Izkata · 2021-05-15 · in The Return of Fancy Tools

…Related suggestions have been https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug and https://github.com/google/git-appraise . The former (git-bug) allows decentralized issue management by storing the issues and conversations on separate git ob

comment by LockAndLol · 2020-10-25 · in YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

Have a look at fossil https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki Or maybe git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug And recently discussed here https://radicle.xyz/

comment by viraptor · 2020-09-18 · in GitHub CLI 1.0

There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues. https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue Would be nice to have something more polished though.

comment by jackac · 2020-09-18 · in GitHub CLI 1.0

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story by ishcheklein · 2020-08-21 · 0 comments

Something like https://github.com/google/git-appraise ?

comment by earhart · 2020-01-07 · in Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

…for federating PRs across platforms, such as the one developed in [2]. Maybe via e-mail? [3]. [1]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise [2]: https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed [3]: https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distr…

comment by MayeulC · 2019-07-23 · in GitHub is down

I thought it will be about git appraise ( https://github.com/google/git-appraise ) but it's still interesting. Thanks for sharing!

comment by Boulth · 2019-05-04 · in Code Review from the Command Line (2018)

There is also Distributed code review system for Git repos: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Boulth · 2018-08-17 · in Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

Git appraise stores PR data in git repository: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Boulth · 2018-06-06 · in The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub

…stored alongside the code it's reviewing, and like the PoC shown by git-appraise from Google[0] 0: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by falsedan · 2018-06-06 · in Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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story by Promarged · 2018-06-06 · 1 comment

…give you my wish list: Issue tracker and review tool built into git itself. You can start here: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by mikekchar · 2018-06-05 · in GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source

PRs and issues. PRs can be distributed using git appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Boulth · 2018-06-05 · in GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

…uses the git-notes feature for a code review system: [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes [2] https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by nicwest · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

…already, that's good. For anyone who wants to see what's possible using low level git tools: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Boulth · 2018-04-15 · in The Fossil distributed version control system

Git Appraise uses notes to store code review data: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by Shoothe · 2018-03-05 · in A Hidden Git Feature: Notes

There is a decentralized review system based on Git. Take a look here: https://github.com/google/git-appraise ...oh, wait...

comment by Shoothe · 2018-01-11 · in GitHub down

…for? Comments about the review? (seems like a lightweight alternative to git appraise [0]). [0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by hdhzy · 2017-11-17 · in Ask HN: What are the best tools for code reviews?

…[0]), well just like OpenPGP I guess. As for the article you're welcome to post it yourself :) [0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by hdhzy · 2017-10-25 · in Welp, there go my Git signatures

Have you seen https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by falsedan · 2017-10-04 · in Keybase launches encrypted Git

…appraise [0] as it allows offline work and synchronization due to underlying transport (git). [0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by hdhzy · 2017-09-30 · in Why kernel development still uses email (2016)

…issues and PRs by putting them as objects inside of git. It also features a webui[1] [0] https://github.com/google/git-appraise [1] https://git-appraise-web.appspot.com/static/reviews.html#?re...

comment by roblabla · 2017-08-09 · in Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community

…data in your repo https://github.com/glogiotatidis/gitissius/blob/master/READM... For PRs there's https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/README.md

comment by viraptor · 2017-03-04 · in Private Git Repository on Any Computer

…has an open issue ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4084 ) to use git-appraise ( https://github.com/google/git-appraise ) for storing pull requests in the repository.

comment by procrastitron · 2017-02-01 · in GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

For continued decentralized operations something like https://github.com/google/git-appraise looks good. It's like Fossil-SCM's distributed tickets but for code review. It can also mirror to Gihtub and Phabricator and has a web interface…

comment by cm3 · 2016-10-02 · in Why kernel development still uses email

Something like this https://github.com/google/git-appraise ?

comment by ktt · 2016-10-02 · in Why kernel development still uses email

I tried that and also env CGO_ENABLED=0 go get github.com/google/git-appraise/git-appraise but I always get an error that go wants to write net.a in /usr/lib, which I naturally am not allowed to do because it's owned by the distro (Arch)…

comment by cm3 · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released

…which can use `getaddrinfo` for dns lookups. Try using the `netgo` build tag: go install -tags=netgo github.com/google/git-appraise/git-appraise

comment by chrj · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released

It's not fossil-scm, but git-appraise restores some of the lost distributed'ness: https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise-web https://github.com/Nemo157/git-appraise-rs And there's also…

comment by cm3 · 2016-07-28 · in GitHub was down

git-appraise ( https://github.com/google/git-appraise ) does this for reviews and there is a tool ( https://github.com/google/git-pull-request-mirror ) for importing pull requests into the git-appraise format.

comment by procrastitron · 2016-04-05 · in GitHub is down

I agree with this, and recently learned about https://github.com/google/git-appraise which I believe stores the code reviews in the repo itself.

comment by justinsb · 2016-03-25 · in Show HN: Better code review for GitHub

…For an example of an open source tool with distributed reviews see https://github.com/google/git-appraise

comment by glibgil · 2016-02-06 · in Code management that doesn't suck