[rhmw2b]

At Google (the original audience of the "rant") tools like Moma and Code Search make it much easier to find the relationship between commit messages and code, so it makes more sense to avoid duplicating information in comments. Finding the commit message for a line of code literally takes one press of a button.

If it's really tedious to find relevant commit logs then I think the right answer is to improve the search process rather than compensate with more comments.

[petters]

Having worked at Google, agree 100%. I think people at Google expect people to look at the commit message more than at other places because it's so easy.