You can now create Understand Comparison Projects directly from git
Tag: git
Getting Git: Walking File History
Join me in a trip down the rabbit hole of making a “File History Diff Walker.”
Getting Git: Blame
Natasha explores the origin of the Blame margin in Understand.
Getting Git: Submodules
How we will be improving git submodule support in Understand.
Getting Git: Scanning Directories
Natasha shares her process and algorithm for finding files at a particular git revision.
Short-term memory overload while debugging
The decisions you make while thinking about code are far too complicated to trust to memory. Ken shows how Understand helps you not rely on short term memory and walk code in an organized fashion that misses nothing.
Blame Can Be Good
A bug in the control flow graph is solved using the Git blame margin in Understand to quickly find a related fix in a recent commit.
Making sense of GIT source code
Making a functional decomposition architecture of the source for GIT helps me understand code that is new to me much better while also making an upcoming deeper analysis more organized, clear, and concise.