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Re:Best practices for writing code comments by i_hate_pigeons on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:11AM (#29671857)
I once worked in a codebase full of such comments, they were all like

// Adding this because XYZ said so

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Re:Best practices for writing code comments by frereubu on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:08AM (#29672261)
Sounds like a plain-language version of "git blame"!
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Re:Best practices for writing code comments by zerocount on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:10AM (#29672947)
I've also seen it where every comment was just who made the code change and the date. "John K. 10/13/1994"
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