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antileet 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI age...

Maybe I'm missing something. If I use `git status --short` or `git log --oneline`, I see output similar to your tool's.

fielding 6 months ago [–]

nit's defaults go beyond what --short does. The token savings come from stripping headers, padding, instructional text, etc. Headers and decorative text ends up tokenizing poorly, so it helps quite a bit there.

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