[mewpmewp2]

It is so odd to me as I don't remember a single instance during my 10 years of experience having done that. Only if I was asked by someone else in the org why something is the way it is have I gone to history to see what the ticket number is for the referred change to get an explanation and this is more related to the product.

I wonder what is so different about our workflows, that some people do it all the time and others almost never.

Are we working on somehow very different things.

To me I find that code is the source of truth and current state, it doesn't really matter to me as much why or how something came to be as I look more into how I can make the current thing work with what I am to do.

[g-b-r]

Maybe you don't debug bugs? Work on recent and clean codebases?

Or simply the projects you work with have poor commit messages?

[mewpmewp2]

I do, and I also work on legacy systems. It just never occurs to me that commit history would somehow help me instead of just looking at the current state of the code.

I would say however that the commit messages mostly are just squashed pull requests with ticket names and single sentence so I'd agree that they wouldn't be very good for that purpose, but I don't see anyone at the org complaining about this.

It's mostly on the Internet I read how others use the git history, but I haven't seen anyone really doing a lot of that in real life.

[avgcorrection]

> I would say however that the commit messages mostly are just squashed pull requests with ticket names and single sentence so I'd agree that they wouldn't be very good for that purpose, but I don't see anyone at the org complaining about this.

There’s your answer.

[g-b-r]

Yep

[usrusr]

For me it's usually blame, look for a line that hasn't been touched by some triviality, then from that commit message either to a ticket reference, or, if absent or unavailable, to history shortly before and after. So yes, I do look at old history. In a codebase that has seen a lot of squash rewriting that won't be of much help of course.