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Starting a greenfield application everyday is nearly impossible, especially in your daily job. In fact, most of us are facing (somewhat) legacy codebases on a daily basis, and regaining the context of why some feature, or line of code exists in the codebase is very important. This is where git, the distributed version control system, is invaluable. Let’s dive in and see how we can use our git history and easily navigate through it....

Most of us use Git on a daily basis. We have all read a book (or part of a book) about Git, we learned how to do commits, track additions and removals, work with branches and so on. But, there’s so much more to Git than just committing your changes. In this post I am going to rant a bit about how we don’t utilise the power of our Git history, and how one can actually start doing it....