Running `git log --reverse` on any overwhelming mature project will give you commits in reverse from "Initial commit" to "Updated README.md" to "Add utils". Do

Running `git log --reverse` on any overwhelming mature project will give you commits in reverse from "Initial commit" to "Updated README.md" to "Add utils". Do `git show COMMIT_HASH` for the first ones and you'll see the genesis. You're looking at the result of thousands of commits, each one having required countless hours of thinking and coding. This can be overwhelming. Here[0] are some tips that help getting to know a codebase. Some may be irrelevant. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100