We skipped these to simplify the original implementation, but they are sometimes used to store important metadata, and should not be ignored (see e.g. #1275).
Related to #39 (which would solve the same problem). I think that both options should be implemented and controlled by commandline flags, so that if the original FITS file has very long HISTORY or COMMENT headers they don't have to be duplicated.
We skipped these to simplify the original implementation, but they are sometimes used to store important metadata, and should not be ignored (see e.g. #1275).
Related to #39 (which would solve the same problem). I think that both options should be implemented and controlled by commandline flags, so that if the original FITS file has very long HISTORY or COMMENT headers they don't have to be duplicated.