You really need to be in a git-first mindset to follow these. Not saying that's a bad thing, but for me at least as a solo dev it often comes as an afterthought

You really need to be in a git-first mindset to follow these. Not saying that's a bad thing, but for me at least as a solo dev it often comes as an afterthought and breaks pretty much all the rules. When developing only with yourself, git quickly ends up becoming a cloud backup. It shouldn't but...