the main reason I've found this "all your git commits are folders" feature to be useful is for searching past code: I can run `grep someFunction branch_histories/main/*/commit.go` to find the old version of someFunction I deleted. There are other ways to do that in git but this is easier.
or if I want to just quickly look at a file on another branch to copy a line from it, I can run `vim branches/other-branch/go.mod`
curious about other use cases
(from https://github.com/jvns/git-commit-folders)
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2023-11-29 11:23:57
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