Context Lineage addresses historical code understanding through three core mechanisms:
- Git Commit Index: The system automatically captures recent commit records, including authors, commit information, timestamps, and change files to build a knowledge base of project history.
- Variance analysis: Leverage lightweight LLM to semantically summarize code differences (diffs) for each commit, distilling key modification intent rather than focusing only on line-of-code changes.
- pattern reuse: When the AI handles a new task (e.g., adding a feature switch), it can retrieve successful practices from similar commits in its history and directly apply validated architectural decisions, avoiding repetitive wheel-building.
This approach translates team experience into machine-readable "institutional knowledge" that significantly improves code consistency and quality.
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