Re: Question: regarding understanding code base

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> > Le 14 juin 2025 à 08:44, JAYATHEERTH K <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> > Ok so a couple of weeks ago, in this thread[1]
> > Junio advised that one of the best ways to understand git is to go back to the
> > _inital commit_ and travel back to the latest ones.
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> > And I happened to quite like this idea, cause I still have to dig up a
> > lot of things in git.
> > The main question is
> > What are the best and smallest set of git commands to do this as
> > I can set this up as an alias and use this trick for many other projects too.
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> If you want a checkout of the root commit, assuming there’s only one, something like
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>     git rev-list | sed -n \$p | xargs git switch --detach
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> ought to work. You could feed something similar to git-worktree. But it’s a little harder to “go forward” with Git’s data model, and I didn’t totally understand “travel back to the latest ones.”
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