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The other problem is ancient codebases that have been through multiple version control systems. Or started with no VCS at all. For example, any history before 2
by chris_wot 4y ago
The other problem is ancient codebases that have been through multiple version control systems. Or started with no VCS at all. For example, any history before 2000 is lost to LibreOffice. What is worse is that for some time the internal processes of Star Division meant that someone bundled up a bunch of code into a single commit, with a terse message about what they fixed.
It's very, very hard to tell what code got changed for what issue in those commits.
Luckily, this didn't last all that long, but dear god there have been days I've chased back code in the git history to find out why it is there and found it was already there in the original import...