---
url: https://scruple.dev/rules/comments/no-change-history-comments.md
description: Disallow obsolete change narration.
---

# comments/no-change-history-comments

Disallow obsolete change narration.

## What it checks

Comments should explain current constraints rather than narrate completed changes that belong in version control history.

## Rule metadata

* Package: `@scruple/comments`
* Category: Comment quality
* Tags: history, maintenance, prose
* Default threshold: `0.95`
* Minimum confidence: `0.7`

## Examples

### Reported

```ts
// Changed this from 3 to 5 last Tuesday.
const retries = 5;
```

### Accepted

```ts
// Five retries cover the provider's longest documented outage window.
const retries = 5;
```