On: Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new...

[geertj]

My typical workflow for checking out new open source projects:

- find . -type f

- find . -name \* .ext | wc -l (get an idea of complexity)

- git log (is this thing maintained?)

- find . -name \* .ext | ctags

- find main entry points, depending on platform and language

- vim with NerdTree enabled

- CTRL-], CTRL-T to jump to browse tags in vim

Generally a lot of find, grep and vim gets me started.