Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
by alentred on 9/25/2026, 11:38:31 AM
https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Comments
by: Izkata
A few months ago there was another of these posted, called Epiq: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155570">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155570</a><p>My comment on there is about a surge in popularity of these over a decade ago, with a link to a previous comment about problems I remember them having that prevented them from being usable for most people ( <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956979">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956979</a> ), because of their intended design rather than an implementation issue. For example bullet 3 was a problem in one, that another tried to solve with bullet 2.<p>I don't have time right now to look at this one to guess if these apply, but might be interesting/useful for someone else.
9/25/2026, 1:15:41 PM
by: Aissen
b4 maintainer and Director of LF IT Konstantin Ryabitsev demo-ed git-bug support in b4 and cgit (kernel.org fork) just this week at the Kernel Recipes conference:<p><a href="https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/maintainer/bugs.html" rel="nofollow">https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/maintainer/bugs.html</a><p><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/bugs/" rel="nofollow">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/bugs/</a><p><a href="https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2026/2026/09/22/live-blog-day-2-morning/#maintainer-container" rel="nofollow">https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2026/2026/09/22/live-blog-day-...</a> (shameless plug)
9/25/2026, 12:48:25 PM
by: saadn92
excellent! will definitely give this a try
9/25/2026, 1:15:04 PM
by: lolakutty
Someone is taking lessons from fossil-scm.<p>Looks great by the way.
9/25/2026, 12:40:34 PM
by: bonjune
Looks like GitHub issue tracker is embedded in git itself. Interesting!
9/25/2026, 12:33:29 PM
by: bflesch
Looks really nice, I wonder why there hasn't been a project with this exact name and functionality before. When I think about it, "git bug" is quite limiting (the bug vs. feature discussion).<p>Naming things is hard, but I can see that it might feel unnatural to use "git bug" to track features. Maybe that's totally okay because it does one thing - tracking bugs - very well, and the whole feature roadmap is living in another system/process anyways?
9/25/2026, 12:44:29 PM