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run4yourlives on Nov 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $0 Startup - once Costly resources for Free

>Once you actually need version control (as opposed to glorified backup) then you can switch for little to no cost.

>Then I started working on a change

I would say here that once you are working on changes, you need version control.

nitrogen on Nov 3, 2011 [–]

But what is programming if not changes? :) You start with a skeleton (be it a bare bones Sinatra server, or a .c file with only main() and a couple of functions), commit it, then change it.

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