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What's your approach for understanding a big codebase? (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by alexdeathway to c/experienced_devs

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understanding a big codebase you have never worked.

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[–] mspencer712 4 points 5 months ago

Start early in the commit history, see if you can understand the general shapes and concepts the project was using at the start.

Then sort of binary-search your way forward in different sized jumps and see how quickly you can get to present day without sacrificing your sanity. Completely at least.