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The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

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Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code The first thing I usually do when I pick up a new codebase isn't opening the code. It's opening a terminal and running a handful of git commands. Before I look at a single file, the commit history gives me a diagnostic picture of the project: who built it, where the problems cluster, whether the team is shipping with confidence or tiptoeing around land mines. What Changes the Most git log --format = format: --name-only --since = "1 year ago" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20 I run this from app/ or src/ , not the repo root. Lockfiles,

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