Get up to speed quickly with a new git repo

One tools you can use to orient yourself more quickly when looking at a new repo is git effort. You'll need the git-extras package on your platform, which provides the sub-command.

git effort will give you a summary of the code churn* in the repo. Typically, it's most useful if you only view files above a certain number of commits: git effort --above 2.

https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras/

This is similar to Gary Berhardt's git-churn script, which is more flexible in some ways.

https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/git-churn

You can find a load more tips here:

http://rakeroutes.com/blog/getting-up-to-speed-on-a-new-git-repo/

• Code churn is most usually defined as the changes in lines in a code base, but I'm defining it here as the relative number of commits to individual files.