[larschdk]

I work on a code base dating back to 2000. First years, the change log was kept at the top of the file, in a comment. Commit comments were automatically inserted into the file by a "$Log" directive (CVS). The first 200 lines are just 20 year old commit log entries, none of them providing any valuable information ("minor changes", "changed XYZ to be consistent with spec", "reenable reporting"). So much cargo culting.

[theta_d]

I worked on a telecom codebase that dated back to 1985. Similar experiences. Was wild to think of contributing to something that was almost as old as me.

[fanf2]

Everyone I knew who was using CVS in the 1990s said that $Log$ was a bad idea that should never be used. Why haven’t you deleted the useless comments?

[phinnaeus]

This reminds me of my fond memories of migrating from perforce to git and getting to delete similar perforce style comments at the top of every file. So satisfying to clean that up.