[masklinn]

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.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

vc-annotate in emacs is my favorite blame view I’ve seen, if you haven’t tried it.