Wow. For a manager, this could easily have been written as: It makes me 2 seconds to look in our issue tracking system to see if a bug has been fixed, vs open

Wow. For a manager, this could easily have been written as: It makes me 2 seconds to look in our issue tracking system to see if a bug has been fixed, vs opening a terminal, find the project, curse at grep for being useless,... Of course omitting steps in your favorite solution makes it look easier. And how is testing/validation tracked in how you use git? Most of us don't work in a vacuum without managers, testers, customers. And for the record, I as a developer also hate Jira, but we have to look at a reasonable solution.