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Warning: buddy told me to skip version control on my first project
My friend Mike said I didn't need Git for a small personal site I was building. I spent 3 weeks coding a portfolio page, then accidentally deleted a core file and had no way to get it back. Took me another 4 days to rewrite everything from memory. Anyone else get bad advice about skipping the basics when you're starting out?
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mia44215d ago
brooooo that's rough. mike gave you the worst possible advice, honestly. even for a tiny project, you gotta track changes. i learned this the hard way too when i messed up my css file and spent a whole weekend trying to remember the exact padding values i had. git isn't just for teams, it's for saving your own butt when you do something dumb like delete the wrong folder at 2am.
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ivan4014d ago
Yeah, but there's another angle nobody's talking about. Even if you don't use git, you should at least keep a messy changelog in a text file. Just write down what you changed each session - the big stuff, not every little tweak. I started doing that years ago when I had to undo three days of work because a plugin broke everything. Saved me hours of trial and error later.
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