You could use Git right now, but not to transfer code to the VM and compile. Its a system to version [1] your code. (Although I mostly skip using Git in toy pr

You could use Git right now, but not to transfer code to the VM and compile. Its a system to version [1] your code. (Although I mostly skip using Git in toy projects, and just backup to Dropbox). [1] If you push your changes to some offsite remote like Github, you are also backing up your code.