> IDEs can show commit history. How you check the commit history is beside the point - the question is, do you read the entire commit log history for a chunk o

> IDEs can show commit history. How you check the commit history is beside the point - the question is, do you read the entire commit log history for a chunk of code before editing it? If not, any comments there might as well not exist - functionally speaking you're maintaining an uncommented codebase.