> The “why” goes into the PR … This just ensures that the “why” is lost when someone comes looking years later. From experience, SCM history is far more durab

> The “why” goes into the PR … This just ensures that the “why” is lost when someone comes looking years later. From experience, SCM history is far more durable than just about any other work product we produce. Over five decades later, commit history was still available for the Unix sources and could be reconstructed: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo I’ve used 35-year-old commit messages to help understand a long-standing issue, decades after all other related organization tooling and data had disappeared.