Go back in time in the codebase and see the commits as an animated explanation of how the codebase was formed. a great way to get into a open source project?
For insance if you could play this inside Eclipse, so that the comments the time and the reason for the commit become clear.
Is there such a thing?
A static (i.e. non-animated) version of "going back in time" is EGit blame (annotations):
Selecting the
Team > Show Annotationsaction on file selections will open the editor and display an annotation ruler with commit and author information for each line in a file.
Hovering over the ruler will display a pop-up showing the commit id, author, committer, and the commit message.
