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>provide an historical record that answers "How the hell did our systems end up looking like this?" Version control?

• garrettgrimsley 8y ago
  Version control only answers "what happened?" not "why did this happen?"
  • pm215 8y ago
    "Why" is what commit messages are for (and also comments); quality of commit message is worth checking in code review while the details are still fresh in everybody's minds...
    • baq 8y ago
      so i have to run blame just to figure out why something happened? i usually ask for explanations both in comments and commit messages.