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Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpclient.apple ([2600:1004:b263:760a:25b1:6481:a909:e9db]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-7d3b8eac18bsm358464685a.75.2025.06.14.17.26.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Ben Knoble Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: Question: regarding understanding code base Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:26:15 -0400 Message-Id: References: Cc: GIT Mailing-list , Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: To: JAYATHEERTH K X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (21F90) > Le 14 juin 2025 =C3=A0 08:44, JAYATHEERTH K a =C3=A9crit : >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOk so a couple of weeks ago, in this thread[1] > Junio advised that one of the best ways to understand git is to go back to= the > _inital commit_ and travel back to the latest ones. >=20 > And I happened to quite like this idea, cause I still have to dig up a > lot of things in git. > The main question is > What are the best and smallest set of git commands to do this as > I can set this up as an alias and use this trick for many other projects t= oo. If you want a checkout of the root commit, assuming there=E2=80=99s only one= , something like git rev-list | sed -n \$p | xargs git switch --detach ought to work. You could feed something similar to git-worktree. But it=E2=80= =99s a little harder to =E2=80=9Cgo forward=E2=80=9D with Git=E2=80=99s data= model, and I didn=E2=80=99t totally understand =E2=80=9Ctravel back to the l= atest ones.=E2=80=9D >=20 > 1 - https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqfrh3qe2w.fsf@gitster.g/ >=20 >=20 > Thank you, >=20 > - Jayatheerth >=20