[jimohalloranau]

I had this happen _several times_ at an agency I used to work at. I stumbled across some really bad code in their main product, got irate and asked "who wrote this shit?". Ran git blame and discovered it was me. Ok, but this is still s#*t, I need to fix it. Spent a couple of hours and found no way of improving it, figured "well, it's ugly, but I guess it is what it is" and moved on.

A few months later I came across the same chunk of code... "Who wrote this shit?", and off we go again. I must have gone through this loop 4 or 5 times with the same piece of code.

[Seb-C]

Would be a good idea to add a comment explaining the situation, so you don't have to waste time again on it.

[jimohalloranau]

Yeah a "why didn't I" thought occurred to me while I was writing the comment above. All I can say is that it was a long time ago now (15 years), and the notion of leaving notes in the code for future versions of myself (and others) is a much bigger part of my way of working these days.