I think the inexperienced developer simply hasn't had to personally dig through old commits/history to solve enough problems. There's likely a threshold (a 100

I think the inexperienced developer simply hasn't had to personally dig through old commits/history to solve enough problems. There's likely a threshold (a 10000 hours type thing) where you've researched enough code history to value great commit messages and descriptions and docs/readmes, issue descriptions and comments etc. But how do we impart the importance of this to the other devs around us that will make it stick? Past "war" stories?