Ask Your Code
summary
Survey of what version control actually answers and what it leaves out, plus concrete git recipes and a new client being built. Demonstrates git log main..branch and the pickaxe search (-S / -G) to find commits that add or remove a string, shows git log -L to track a function and git blame -w -C -C -C to follow moves and ignore whitespace. Argues most teams ask the wrong, easy questions; missing data includes pull request conversations, cross-repo links and runtime error context (Sentry), tools that don’t exist yet.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Product design and Version Control
- 3:20First principles in design
- 11:01Version Control first principles
- 17:23Version Control archaeology
- 24:08Common vs uncommon git questions
- 30:09Impossible git questions
- 33:17Call to action
