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[–] Adynatos ago 

I can only speak about one consumer electronics megacorp, but it totally happens. What's more, there were extensive systems to show who commited some patch, some rarely used (and often circumvented because there was no time) systems to show who did a code review (usually some other engineer), but there's no trace of managerial decisions leading to that patch. Someone tells team leader, who tells project leader, who tells engineers. There's no git for managers and the company acts to shift the blame to the smallest cog possible. I think that if VW goes with it and some happless dev is blamed, they will demoralize their current employees and turn away possible new ones. They will lose more than money.

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[–] FlintRockBone ago 

That's true, I always try to make make email into git for managers, but they always try to shift sensitive conversations to informal venues. One thing that I've done in the past in add a comment to the code that I don't entirely agree with saying per discussion with XYZ or something. I've mainly done that so that future maintainers have someone to hate other than me though.