Yes they did. That's what this comment thread is about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691624
(Unless you're splitting some really fine hairs about what "in it" means?)
Which makes it a claim that those tools are git's distributed bug tracker.
A bug tracker and an issue tracker are basically the same term. So that's a claim that git has an issue tracker.
So when you come along and say "Nobody said git has an issue tracker in it." you are either wrong, or you're saying the words "in it" completely change the meaning of the sentence.
If it's the latter, that is a very unhelpful way to communicate, and is definitely splitting hairs. And honestly it's a strawman too because the comment you replied to wasn't using the words "in it". They were saying that you shouldn't say "git has" email. Which is a direct reference to the ancestor comment's claim. It was not hyperbole.
I'm not splitting hairs anywhere. I'm saying that the ancestor comment has the same meaning as "git has an issue tracker". That's not splitting. It's the opposite of splitting.
A bug tracker is just assorted communication. One can easily build it over email.
You're just indulging in hyperbole for the sake of it. Nobody said git has an issue tracker in it.