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Thought I could skip version control for solo projects but lost a week of work after a bad refactor
Rolled back an experiment in my personal site project and accidentally wiped two days of updates because I wasn't committing, so now I'm curious if anyone else learned this lesson the hard way or am I just stubborn?
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carr.lee13d ago
Ha, yeah I’m still that stubborn idiot. Made the same mistake three times now and each time I swear “this time I’ll learn.”
Last time I just told myself “it’s fine, I’ll remember the changes” then woke up the next day with zero memory and a broken project.
Git is basically my brain’s external hard drive now, and my brain is the one that keeps forgetting to plug it in.
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sarah81813d ago
oh man, the "I'll just remember" trap is so real. it's like when you tell yourself you don't need to write down a grocery list because you'll totally remember the three things you need, and then you're standing in the store staring at nothing. I've started doing the same with git, even if it's just a stupid message like "tweaked the header colors" or whatever. it's wild how our brains just lie to us about how good our memory is when we're in the middle of something.
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the_grace13d ago
Wiped two days of updates" - yeah that stings. I do the same thing thinking "nah it's just me, I'll remember what I changed." Now I force myself to do a quick git commit every time I finish a feature or fix, even if it's just a stupid message like "fixed the dumb button alignment." Also turned on auto-stashing in VS Code so if I forget and try to checkout something else it yells at me first. Saved me more times than I want to admit.
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