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I can’t imagine how this product could give any meaningful reports to management when its data is coming from git history.

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A previous company was using it and I think it was largely useless. The manager knew it and was quite vocal about it, but we still went through the tool in our 1-2-1s.

It tells you what the reality in Git is - how many commits, how many lines of code changed, how much refactoring etc., so there's nothing really wrong with it. If that's what you're interested in, that's what you get.

Agree, there is an old saying "What gets measured gets managed" These numbers are handy (we look at similar numbers) but they absolutely do not tell the whole story and it's dangerous to think they do. You can often find yourself optimizing the wrong area and in large organizations even marginalizing your best performers because they don't fit the mold.

git commit -m "fix the problem"

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