Introduction
One of the biggest problems in software teams is not writing code. Code eventually gets written, refactored, tested, and deployed. The real challenge, most of the time, is this:
"Why was this decision made?"
When a developer joins a project, they can't understand the work just by looking at the repository. They can see the code, but not the story behind it. Why was a service split this way? Why is an interface designed so oddly? Why does a test specifically check that edge case? Why has a file turned into something everyone is afraid to touch? The answers to these questions usually lie not in the code itself, but in the team's history.
That history is scattered across different tools:
