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Article argues that git is intrinsically confusing--if you could redesign git from scratch, what would you change? (dl.acm.org)

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[–] Corbin 2 points 7 months ago

The original workflow, which is still in use today, is git-blame followed by git-show: look up candidate commits, then examine their history individually. This can be accelerated with a GUI; e.g. GitHub and GitLab support blame-style views.