Yes, I use it routinely to do something like git blame > who changed that line the last time git log > why was it changed You can quickly find out if this was

Yes, I use it routinely to do something like git blame > who changed that line the last time git log > why was it changed You can quickly find out if this was some trivial typo fix, or an important feature was introduced. Implicitly, it means than to get some sort of value from that kind of archaeology you have either very detailed git commit message, or really clear bug tracker with all the why, regression tests, etc that were done a that time. That being said, I think this is a bad argument for not changing/updating your VCS. You can absolutely move to git, and keep a dump of the SVN base you can still expose and review at will.