[b15h0p]

An underrated feature is “blame” in the IDE. IntelliJ or Eclipse both support showing the last commit a line was changed in in the “gutter” of the code editor.

Makes it easier to figure out how old a line of code is and (if the commit messages are any good) why it was introduced or changed.

[carlmr]

>why it was introduced or changed.

"Fixed formatting"

[hinkley]

That one’s easy enough. Show diff, run annotate again in the left hand side.

Which is also why I always separate my formatting and structural changes into two sequential commits. Last interesting change is easy to read, and the previous one is the work of a few extra seconds.