The exact same thing happened to me, and I kicked myself hard for it. At the time I used source control at work (TFS and SVN; git wasn't yet ubiquitous), so I d

The exact same thing happened to me, and I kicked myself hard for it. At the time I used source control at work (TFS and SVN; git wasn't yet ubiquitous), so I didn't really have an excuse. I've used source control for all personal projects since, and it's in no way a burden. In fact, there have been another couple of instances since the first, where I would have lost a bunch of work without it.