your commits don't have to be perfect, but maintaining good commit hygiene (no multiple change contexts in one commit) will work wonders... giving up on source

your commits don't have to be perfect, but maintaining good commit hygiene (no multiple change contexts in one commit) will work wonders... giving up on source control means having no means to roll back changes to a known good point in case you realize its a bad approach or in case of a mysterious bug you can't chase down... I don't regret having moved on from the daily 'make tar' days.