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Also on the tiny chance you really need the old code, you can dredge it up from your version-control system.

• cratermoon 3y ago
  With git, yes. When I end up working with programmers who come from using other vcs, I find they are often the ones who don't delete code, or at best comment it out. I encourage them to trust git. It takes effort (barring a system failure out of git's control) to lose code. It can take some digging to find code in the git history, but it's there. Even if you run `git gc`, the objects are still there in the repo, by default. Even in extremis, if the central repo is gone, whoever has the most recent checkout still has history. With other, older VCS, I have less confidence.