I've seen this claim a number of times and it's always so odd to me. One of my most common activities each day - certainly more common than the activity of writing new code - is reading the commit history for different files. It's always surprising to me to hear that this is an uncommon thing to do.
Edit to add: But I also think comments and documentation of all kinds are good. I don't advocate good commit messages instead of comments, but rather in addition to comments. The more documentation the better.
I've seen this claim a number of times and it's always so odd to me. One of my most common activities each day - certainly more common than the activity of writing new code - is reading the commit history for different files. It's always surprising to me to hear that this is an uncommon thing to do.
Edit to add: But I also think comments and documentation of all kinds are good. I don't advocate good commit messages instead of comments, but rather in addition to comments. The more documentation the better.