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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

had no business anywhere near a project that size.

Lol. That's a really good point, actually.

I add version control around file number 3200...

(I'm kidding. Writing even a couple lines without version control makes my eye twitch.)

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even back in my super noob days, I'd keep known good working versions of the files in separate folders. I basically invented my own terrible source control system before I knew anything about svn or git.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Same here. We learned to mistrust computers very early.