09-12, 15:40–16:20 (Europe/Berlin), Main KiCon Presentation Space
In Git, we typically bundle code changes with a commit message explaining the 'what' and 'why.' But commits often relate to broader contexts—issues, features, bugs—that aren't explicitly captured. This talk explores how we can leverage Git to add such context information and maybe learn new ways access information from Git
Tabea Röthemeyer is a software engineer and physicist at Auto-Intern GmbH, where she works on data visualization and embedded systems. She is passionate about clean, understandable code and sees refactoring as a way to capture growing insight in a codebase. Her master’s thesis explored extending Git with metadata for feature-oriented development, variant management, and localization workflows, combining research with practical software engineering.