Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
Top comments
I appreciate the effort here, but after learning the workflow and having to get all this set up on a few computers, having to configure git send-mail is honestly just needlessly annoying and absurd. Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors, but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful process and is incapable of improvement
No JS - I was baffled - did not know about `<label for="<target here>">`. Nice. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/la...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 480
- Total comments
- 326
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-04 | Show HN: Learn to use email with GitFirst breakout | ddevault | 170 | 71 |
| 2020-08-27 | Learn to Use Email with Git | LaSombra | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-10-30 | Learn to Use Email with Git | Arubis | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-02-26 | Learn to Use Email with Git | Moyamo | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-06-17 | Git Send-Email | memorable | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-08-24 | Git-send-email configuration and practice repo | Abishek_Muthian | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-10-31 | Learn to Use Email with Git | Amorymeltzer | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-05-09 | Git-send-email: Contributing to email-driven projects like the Linux kernel | modinfo | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-07-18 | Git ships with built-in tools for collaborating over email | janandonly | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-10-12 | Email and Git = <3Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | pmarin | 289 | 255 |
| 2025-05-28 | Learn to Use Email with Git | stefankuehnel | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-05-29 | Learn to Use Email with Git | gsky | 2 | 0 |