Motivation

Today I made a change to the site config, breaking a feature of the site. Frustratingly, I did this across several Vim sessions, and I don’t have persistent undo turned on, so I had no way of getting back to a known working state. Because of this I had to pour over the config file and documentation for a good 15 minutes before I found my typo.

As soon as I got the site working again I created a repository for the site and checked everything into it. So long as I am disciplined in my use of version control, I should never again be in the predicament I was in today.

This leads us to today’s proverb:

The proverb

Anything worth doing is worth doing under version control.

– The Wise Developer

It doesn’t matter if it’s a critical project for work, or a silly little personal project. Version control costs little to set up and pays back in spades.

-j42h