Comment by mrkeen

I once worked in a small VB6-based team - you can probably guess the attitudes and surrounding tech were just as out of date.

I tried to push for using svn, rather than just making copies of our source code folders and adding dates to them.

My manager allowed me to use svn, but to make sure I also did things the proper way by making copies of the source code folders.

That's the current level of discourse around audit logs. Write down what happened using your data tables ... but write down what really happened in the audit logs.

At some point you should just lean into putting audit logs first (just like developers reach for the git first).