What happens when your version control dies? Of course it shouldn't happen, but we all know about Murphy's Law. Or as I've encountered on multiple occasions: y

What happens when your version control dies? Of course it shouldn't happen, but we all know about Murphy's Law. Or as I've encountered on multiple occasions: your IT team is struggling to figure out why your network/version control/etc are extremely slow... 3 second queries are now taking 60 seconds... we will be rebooting servers a few times... and restoring backups... hopefully things are working better tomorrow! Or what happens when you migrate to another versioning system? Where I was working migrated from MS SourceSafe years ago and a lot of comment history was lost in the conversion and apparently it wasn't worth the time/money to figure out why only half the comments made it over. I'm sure there are more scenarios. The point is: comments in plain-text source files can be invaluable.