I am not a programer, but I always regarded this practice as weird. Every time I saw such headers in my company the header would feature a name of some long-gon

I am not a programer, but I always regarded this practice as weird. Every time I saw such headers in my company the header would feature a name of some long-gone employee. So no point of knowing the author's name since you cannot reach him for help. And if I really wanted to know the author's name, then git log --follow would help me anyway Nothing but a someone's ego boost and a theft of my screen space