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by dllthomas 2137 days ago
If you make a habit of browsing your git log with -p or --numstat, you'll see the changes to the ADR show up.

> be unsure whether it’s still relevant.

The idea is that it's still relevant unless it's been marked superceded or deprecated.

> the history itself tells you whether those changes stuck around or were superseded.

Not really. The history has all of the changes, interleaved. So it's not easy for, looking at a commit message way in the past, to know whether a decision described there still applies to some later version.