I maintain a C++ codebase that was originally written in 1996, and is mission critical for my organization. Originally maintained in Visual Sourcesafe, then in

I maintain a C++ codebase that was originally written in 1996, and is mission critical for my organization. Originally maintained in Visual Sourcesafe, then in TFS source control, and now git. Some parts of it were rewritten (several times) in C#, but the core is still C++. I was very worried when we transitioned to git that history will not be preserved and tried to preserve it, but it proved too much hassle so I dropped it. In fact that proved not to be a problem. Well, not a problem for me, since I remember all the history of the code and all the half forgotten half baked features and why they are there. But if I'm gone then yes, it's going to be a problem. It's in a dire need for a rewrite, but this has been postponed again and again.