comments that explain the code, not how it was written

About 340 comments cited the development process: task and plan
numbers, fix waves, rulings, reviewers, and the author in the third
person with a date. None of that exists outside the work itself, so to
a reader it pointed at nothing. Each one now states the engineering
reason it was standing in front of; where a comment was provenance and
nothing else, it is gone.

References to docs/design.md and docs/gui-design.md by section stay:
both ship with the repository. The design documents lose their
amendment diaries - CHANGELOG.md is that record - and the GUI's says
plainly that the window has gone further than the document.

Only comments changed. Every .go file was parsed and its code printed
with comments stripped, before and after: the two hashes are identical
across all 175 files.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/gui/internal/ui/plan.go b/gui/internal/ui/plan.go
index 650668c..bcbb8a2 100644
--- a/gui/internal/ui/plan.go
+++ b/gui/internal/ui/plan.go
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 	p.dirs.Connect("notify::selected", p.showPath)
 	p.scan = gtk.NewButtonWithLabel("Scan")
 	// The one button that starts everything, so it carries the theme's
-	// accent like Apply does (his request, 2026-09-17).
+	// accent like Apply does.
 	p.scan.AddCSSClass("suggested-action")
 	p.scan.SetTooltipText("read the directory and work out what would happen to each file; nothing is touched until Apply")
 	p.selAll = gtk.NewButtonWithLabel("Select all")
@@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 	p.filter.SetSizeRequest(200, -1)
 
 	// The order the plan is read in. It starts as the settings say and can
-	// be changed for this window alone (his request, 2026-09-17).
+	// be changed for this window alone.
 	p.sort = gtk.NewDropDownFromStrings(sortItems())
 	p.sort.SetTooltipText("the order the plan is listed in; Settings has the one a new window starts with")
 
 	// The bar reads as the order of operations: which directory, how it
 	// will be listed, what of it, where it is on disk - then Scan, and only
-	// then what to do with what comes back (his request, 2026-09-17).
+	// then what to do with what comes back.
 	bar.Append(gtk.NewLabel("Directory"))
 	bar.Append(p.dirs)
 	bar.Append(gtk.NewLabel("sort"))
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 
 	// The explanation is laid out rather than printed: the file's name, then
 	// a line per step with the action in its own colour, centred in the
-	// pane so the eye lands on it (his request, 2026-09-17).
+	// pane so the eye lands on it.
 	p.details = gtk.NewBox(gtk.OrientationVertical, 6)
 	p.details.SetHAlign(gtk.AlignCenter)
 	p.details.SetVAlign(gtk.AlignStart)
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 
 	// Under the explanation, a look at the file itself: a picture for an
 	// image, the first page for a PDF, the first lines for anything that is
-	// text (his request, 2026-09-16).
+	// text.
 	p.previewNote = gtk.NewLabel("")
 	p.previewNote.SetXAlign(0)
 	p.previewNote.SetMarginStart(8)
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 	p.previewNote.AddCSSClass("dim-label")
 	// The picture fills whatever the divider leaves it. Inside a scrolled
 	// window it would be given its smallest size instead, which is what
-	// made the page a stamp (his report, 2026-09-17).
+	// made the page a stamp.
 	p.picture = gtk.NewPicture()
 	p.picture.SetCanShrink(true)
 	p.picture.SetContentFit(gtk.ContentFitContain)
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ func newPlanView(w *Window) *planView {
 }
 
 // checkedMenu is "With checked": the same two overrides the row menu has,
-// for every file that is checked at once (his request, 2026-09-17).
+// for every file that is checked at once.
 func (p *planView) checkedMenu() *gtk.MenuButton {
 	box := gtk.NewBox(gtk.OrientationVertical, 0)
 	trash := gtk.NewButtonWithLabel("Trash them instead")
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ func (p *planView) setBusy(busy bool) {
 
 // selectAll checks or unchecks every file that can be applied - and, while
 // a filter is on, only the files it leaves on screen, so what Apply acts on
-// is what was in front of him.
+// is what is visible.
 func (p *planView) selectAll(on bool) {
 	if p.tab == nil {
 		return
@@ -670,8 +670,7 @@ func (p *planView) fillList() {
 	p.selNone.SetSensitive(!p.tab.Applied)
 	p.sayWhatIsShown()
 	// A fresh list starts at its left edge: without this the view can open
-	// scrolled sideways, with the file names out of sight (his report,
-	// 2026-09-17).
+	// scrolled sideways, with the file names out of sight.
 	if adj := p.listScroll.HAdjustment(); adj != nil {
 		adj.SetValue(0)
 	}
@@ -680,7 +679,7 @@ func (p *planView) fillList() {
 // widths is how wide each column has to be for this plan: enough for the
 // longest value it holds, within limits, so a rule name or an outcome is
 // shown whole rather than cut to an ellipsis. The list scrolls sideways
-// when the total does not fit (his report, 2026-09-16).
+// when the total does not fit.
 func (p *planView) widths() [7]int {
 	w := [7]int{16, 5, 4, 6, 16, 8, 6}
 	root := p.dirRoot()
@@ -701,7 +700,7 @@ func (p *planView) widths() [7]int {
 		w[i] = min(w[i], cap)
 	}
 	// A column is never narrower than its own heading, or the heading is
-	// the thing that ends in an ellipsis (his report, 2026-09-17).
+	// the thing that ends in an ellipsis.
 	for i, title := range columnTitles {
 		w[i] = max(w[i], len([]rune(title)))
 	}
@@ -830,8 +829,7 @@ func (p *planView) rowWidget(i int, r model.Row, w [7]int) *gtk.ListBoxRow {
 	// ever the column cut to an ellipsis.
 	action, colour := rowAction(r)
 	// Every column can shrink: a pane narrower than their natural widths
-	// used to push the whole row out of view to the left (his report,
-	// 2026-09-17).
+	// used to push the whole row out of view to the left.
 	cells := [7]gtk.Widgetter{
 		colFile:    columnMin(escape(r.Rel), w[colFile], 12, true),
 		colSize:    columnMin(model.SizeText(r.Size), w[colSize], 4, false),
@@ -949,8 +947,7 @@ func (p *planView) showDetails(i int) {
 		p.details.Append(detailLine(what, "dim-label"))
 	}
 	// Where the other copy is, in full: the reason names it relative to the
-	// directory when it is inside it, which reads as no place at all (his
-	// report, 2026-09-17).
+	// directory when it is inside it, which reads as no place at all.
 	if r.DuplicateOf != "" {
 		p.details.Append(detailLine("the same bytes as "+escape(xdg.Abbrev(r.DuplicateOf)), "dim-label"))
 	}
@@ -1058,9 +1055,8 @@ func (p *planView) showPreview(rel string) {
 }
 
 // setLayout arranges the tab the way the settings ask: the file list beside
-// the explanation, or above it with the preview to its side (his sketch,
-// 2026-09-17). The widgets are the same either way; only the panes holding
-// them change.
+// the explanation, or above it with the preview to its side. The widgets
+// are the same either way; only the panes holding them change.
 func (p *planView) setLayout(which string) {
 	if p.layout == which && p.arrangement != nil {
 		return