I think this would be a useful study, people are saying that its self-evidently obvious that Version Control helps, but its always good to challenge things that

I think this would be a useful study, people are saying that its self-evidently obvious that Version Control helps, but its always good to challenge things that are supposedly obvious. I expect if it was properly studied we'd be able to identify a rough level of complexity below which using version control takes extra time and delivers not much benefit. e.g. Linux Kernel definitely couldn't be done without version control, whereas some of the 24 hour things I've done solo at hackathons would probably have moved faster without git. edit: but don't get me wrong, for any serious, multi-developer project I'm definitely using version control