3 ms·

Commit message bodies -> git-blame.

• AlotOfReading 6y ago
  I've seen many codebases outlive their version control/metadata. Source lives forever and while it may not be perfectly proper, I'd much rather have durable comments telling me how constants were derived than metadata.
  • astrobe_ 6y ago
    However Git allows to salvage the history of SVN during the migration, probably because SVN was one of the most popular CVS before itself. One would expect that if something dethrones Git, it would (have to) do the same. That said, that method is not really viable if the piece of code moves too much. I would then side with the other suggestion to put that in a separate file in a doc/ sub-folder and just refer to that file in a comment. I guess that for most programming editors, "open file under cursor" is just a key combo away.