Stolen knowledge is best knowledge. Then dazzle everyone with how smart you are! Oh, and don't be afraid to do git blame on some particularly hairy piece of co

Stolen knowledge is best knowledge. Then dazzle everyone with how smart you are! Oh, and don't be afraid to do git blame on some particularly hairy piece of code and see how it came to be. Often commit messages has a lot of information. If you are using Emacs, vc-region-history is pure gold, I don't know how to produce that view from the command line.