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Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history?
         by points brundolf 5 hours ago
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Source control gives you a full history of every change that’s ever been made to your codebase since its beginning. At my current company they place a huge value on that history, so much so that they haven transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating years of commits. Obviously the write-only paradigm is useful when reconciling changes with others and when reverting recent, broken changes or recovering accidentally-deleted work. But to me, it seems like there’s diminishing value the further back you go. I can’t imagine getting much value from trawling through two-year-old commits, much less twenty-year-old commits. So I ask: at your company and in your experience, do you get value from source -control-arachaeology? And if so, what does that look like in your case?
                 

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