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by tbrownaw 3194 days ago
There are two kinds of that.

One is "wtf was I thinking", which comments won't help with.

The other is "where did the requirement come from", and that's (1) not a "cock-sure of themselves" sort of thing; and (2) best solved by putting a tracking number on the commit message, rather than traditional code comments.