For a while, I’ve worked on a new build tool for the Symfony documentation. The project started with a fresh git init, but now it’s time to merge it with our existing build tool. I want all contributors of the existing tool to receive credits for the code they build, but I also don’t want to ignore all iterations of the new build tool project. During SymfonyCon 2025 Hackday last weekend, I wanted to find a way to achieve this. And apparently, it is straightforward… in Git terms at least.

Code discussions contain relevant information. Isn’t it a shame that we keep these in the centralized GitHub/GitLab servers, far away from our decentralized Git code? As soon as we move provider, we’ll lose all old discussions! And how do you ever find the pull requests back from 5 years ago? Symfony has implemented a lightweight solution to this problem years ago using a less-known feature of Git: Git Notes.