Your Code as a Crime Scene

Investigate Knowledge in the Scala Repository

The Scala codebase is fairly large, with approximately 300,000 lines of code. The project flourishes with developer activity; over the past two years, more than 150 developers have contributed to the project. That scale of development makes it virtually impossible for any single developer to keep it all in his or her head. So, let’s put our map together to guide us.

Start by cloning Scala’s git repository:

To get reproducible results, we need to go back in time to when this book was written. We do that with the piece of git magic we learned in ​Turn Back Time​. But we need to be careful. Because Scala uses different ...