The project I'm working on has over 150 commits per day. It would take literally months of work to get up to speed with the codebase if you did it by reading ju

The project I'm working on has over 150 commits per day. It would take literally months of work to get up to speed with the codebase if you did it by reading just the git headers, not the diffs. This is considered a small project. Histories of active projects grow with age. A well maintained artifact should plateau in complexity.