My bread and butter is jumping via blame, though I don’t really like emacs’ blame view so I generally use intellij or git gui. e.g. see something odd / interes

My bread and butter is jumping via blame, though I don’t really like emacs’ blame view so I generally use intellij or git gui. e.g. see something odd / interesting, activate blame view, and “show diff” / “annotate previous revision” to see how the hunk evolved. Often this provides fast-tracking through the file’s history as the hunk goes through inconsequential changes (e.g. reformatting, minor updates) without changing the gist of what sparked your interest.