FWIW i often had to go backwards in history (that was with Perforce, not Git) in previous jobs to figure out when a bug was introduced and by who so i can see w

FWIW i often had to go backwards in history (that was with Perforce, not Git) in previous jobs to figure out when a bug was introduced and by who so i can see what was the logic behind the change (either from the commit message or by asking the person directly, if they were still around). It can be helpful to avoid breaking something else by mistake when trying to fix something that had a reason to be as it is.