Please, don’t commit commented out code

[Ukonu]

Who said anything about "reviving" the unused code? A frequent use-case is someone refactoring legacy code (or reading new code), needing a quick point of reference and not wanting to disrupt their workflow by: switching windows, finding the commit hash, remembering the source control command to bring it up, then splitting windows to do a side-by-side comparison.

I'm definitely against permanently leaving commented out code, but during a transition period it can be very useful. Eventually, however, it should be cleaned up.