A nice methodology to read an entire repo, each commit separately under a UNIX-like environment

[stefanos82]

I have tried to read the entire code from first commit up until the last, but I would lose track most of the times as I was using git log --reverse -p; by the end I finished reading the current active commit in front of me, upon attempting the next day to come back to continue, I would get lost; it drove me insane!

So, I asked myself: what is the cleanest way to study any repo out there without losing track?

Seems like there's a "hack", so to speak, which is so convenient and elegant in my humble opinion.

With the kind assist of some folks from #git channel in Libera chat server (IRC), they came up with the following command:

git log --reverse -p | awk '/^commit/ { f = sprintf("%04d.patch", ++i) } 1 { print >> f }'

In other words, we take each commit and export it inside a .patch file that is also quite possible your favorite editor identifies this file format (I hope!).

Enjoy!