Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archaeologists

Posted by surprisetalk on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:42AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hello friends,

Today I'm sharing a little tool to help you explore GitHub repositories:

This project was admittedly a big dumb excuse to play with Elm and Claude Code. I published my design notes and all the chat transcripts here:

• https://taylor.town/diggit-000

Please add bug reports and feature requests to the repo:

• https://github.com/surprisetalk/diggit

Enjoy!

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by personjerry on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:40PM (#45029809)

Can you give the use case? Or example runs? Seems like git log or git bisect should be enough?

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by surprisetalk on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:16PM (#45030253)

git log is probably good enough for 90% of folks :)

The main reason I wanted to build this is that git log doesn't give me context from GitHub PRs/issues/milestones or CI events. When I'm diving into a new codebase, I like to see who's been working on what, and what ongoing problems/initiatives are propelling that development.

I've only got GH issues up (not milestones or CI events yet), but I think this is a good start!

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by dinkleberg on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:13PM (#45030207)

Your personal site is a bit insane, but I love it. Great write up. And nice to see Elm still getting used.

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by high_priest on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:57AM (#45039027)

The website is a reflection of the man https://taylor.town/ready-matters

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by ATechGuy on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:07PM (#45030830)

Great! AI crawlers would love this.

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by kylemaxwell on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:18PM (#45030964)

I got all excited thinking this was related to real-world archaeology and somehow providing a git-like representation of that. (No idea how it would work, which is why I was excited).

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Re:Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archae... by DHRicoF on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:51AM (#45035864)

Should Archeologist rebase or merge when new evidence is undercover?

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