gitlens is incredible. It passively educates on the git history so you learn about how old each section is and who was mostly behind it or worked with it last w

gitlens is incredible. It passively educates on the git history so you learn about how old each section is and who was mostly behind it or worked with it last without ever requiring dedicated effort since it just sits there at the end of the selected line. I still wouldn't use git as a replacement for comments since git history is wiped out all the time. Moving files or reformatting or a million other things could remove a critical commit message.