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> "The comments are in the commit messages" - almost nobody ever goes looking for them there Consider it another tool in the toolbox. I've gone spelunking thro
by pronoiac 6y ago
> "The comments are in the commit messages" - almost nobody ever goes looking for them there
Consider it another tool in the toolbox. I've gone spelunking through git history to decipher the reasoning of something still in use, though comments had been deleted and no one had documented it before me.
- zimpenfish 6y agoThis works iff there are good commit messages. In my experience, people who don't document their code tend not to bother with good commit messages either.