Re: Question: regarding understanding code base

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2025, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqldpt6dht.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CA+rGoLehMUWPMBrZ1hOk-GBQBCvSY0_ivFCn1w1C-V_bGTDgZg@mail.gmail.com>

JAYATHEERTH K <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> writes:

> What I meant was:
> You previously suggested that one good way to understand Git is to
> start from the initial commit of the Git repo and move forward
> chronologically through the commits.

Not at all. I only suggested to study the initial one. It is more like biology students learning the common principles that apply to all kinds of life by studying a lot simpler organism as a model, instead of studying a lot higher order ones like mammals.

Moving forward is all your invention or hallucination ;-)

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> - Start from the initial commit of a repository
>
> - Walk forward through history (one commit at a time) probably which
> changes my file system (I currently use a terminal based command)
>
> I use
> git rev-list --reverse HEAD | while read commit; do
>   echo "=== Commit: $commit ==="
>   git show --color --stat --patch --pretty=fuller "$commit"
>   read -p "Press enter to continue to the next commit..."
> done
>
> I wanted to know if there are any better ways

Like "git log --reverse -p"?