Personally, I don't ever really find myself needing to back up a tree, or find myself encountering something unexpected (outside of the code itself). In my expe

Personally, I don't ever really find myself needing to back up a tree, or find myself encountering something unexpected (outside of the code itself). In my experience Git is extremely reliable... but only if you enter its weird commands with no typos whatsoever. Hence: this enormous dotfile I maintain that is half Git shortcuts: https://github.com/RobertAKARobin/dotfiles/blob/master/.bash_profile_helpers#L108 https://github.com/RobertAKARobin/dotfiles/blob/master/.bash... It makes me think of an old car that only the owner can drive, because it'll break down for anyone who hasn't memorized all its quirks (e.g. my own bumper-sticker-covered, manual-transmission 1996 Toyota Corolla, fondly named Sharon). Again, though, I have the same relationship with virtually all frameworks, tools, and languages (looking at you, Bash).