understanding a big codebase you have never worked.

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    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.