Was asked to give an estimate on a project that was offshored and I was amazed at a.) how few commits the developers did over several months b.) how little the

Was asked to give an estimate on a project that was offshored and I was amazed at a.) how few commits the developers did over several months b.) how little the person who hired the offshore developers was monitoring them. It's just so trivial to just check progress once a day, I like to commit to a development branch at least every day because I am paranoid about losing progress or experiments that I can reference even if I decide on something better later.