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Rewind is an intelligent archivist.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2013-11-01 · latest 2021-08-05

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  1. …a set of git history analysis scripts that I often use when I'm joining a new team. they're here: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind but they're a bit stale at the moment. one major weakness they have is that they work on a per-repo…
    comment by tessierashpool · 2021-08-05 · in Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
  2. …top-voted strategies include: - Try to find out "hotspots" in code using some scripting (e.g. https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind ). According to user tessierashpool on the last thread: > we tend to view files in a list, but in reality,…
    comment by ralmeida · 2015-11-11 · in Ask HN: How do you navigate a new codebase?
  3. …identify the most frequently-edited files, the most recently-edited files, the largest files, etc. https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind it's for assessing a project on day one, when you join, especially for "rescue mission" consulting.…
    comment by tessierashpool · 2015-06-26 · in Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
  4. I do something similar with bash when I start a new project. Code's here: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind It's just useful to profile the team in terms of who writes the most code, or to profile the project in terms of when it's…
    comment by tessierashpool · 2013-11-01 · in Discovering Senior Developers from Source Code History