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Capture the decision at the moment of commit, or lose it forever

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  1. Lore is a Git commit-time documentation tool that captures the reason for a code change right when the commit happens.

  2. It uses a post-commit hook to ask three prompts and save the change rationale as a Markdown file in the repo.

  3. The goal is to preserve engineering decision-making before it is forgotten, instead of relying on stale or contradictory docs.

  4. By keeping rationale close to the code, Lore aims to make future maintenance and code archaeology easier.

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