We switched from SVN to Git about a year and a half ago. I often use the "annotate" feature in my editor to see the history of lines of code (to figure out who

We switched from SVN to Git about a year and a half ago. I often use the "annotate" feature in my editor to see the history of lines of code (to figure out who to talk to when I have questions), and I routinely run into the "initial commit" wall from when everything was squashed. I wish that when the team had migrated from SVN to git, they had used a tool that would have preserved the history. It's very easy to do! I don't know why they didn't. They did it right before I joined the company so I never had an opportunity to show them how.