Title: Source control gives you a full history of every change that&#x27;s ever been made to your codebase since its beginning. At my current company they place a huge value on that history, so much so that they haven&#x27;t transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits.<p>Obviously the write-only paradigm is useful when reconciling changes with others and when reverting recent, broken changes or recovering accidentally-deleted work. But to me, it seems like there&#x27;s diminishing value the further back you go. I can&#x27;t imagine getting much value from trawling through two-year-old commits, much less twenty-year-old commits.<p>So I ask: at your company and in your experience, do you get value from source-control-arachaeology? And if so, what does that look like in your case?
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