>>A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge mentions the honourable profession of software archaeologist. Any code is written. You only need to find and fix to your needs. ;)
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>Duly noticed at each reading. Now since we're in fox world here, I've had routines which survived some 30 years with just slight changes. I wish I had the time (read: patience) to create a colored representation to show the age of each line.

ok. not that old, but let's think

Since '98 I put anything important in VSS, switching '14 to git. The VSS data is still in some sideboard (just like the VFP code at MS), git is complete anyway
If I
- create a new repo
- loop to
- automate to read the old crap from VSS
- for each change, create a commit with datetime (what is available from VSS)
- add the recent git atop the same way

After that, I just need to find the tool. :)

Somehow I was to lazy to do it '14 while switching to git. I fear I will still be to lazy. :)