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Re:Ask HN: For side projects, do you Git from the start, or ... by sk0g on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:25AM (#21968590)
The version control part is a very good point actually!

For personal projects I just use the master branch for everything, which I just realised might be the cause of a few of the problems there.

To be honest, I haven't done much front-end/ user facing stuff even, aside from a few Android apps and some uni assignments. There's so much to learn and I try to stay away from JS/HTML, to an irrational degree maybe.

Do you start with git straight away though, or once it's reached a decent size where you wouldn't want to lose the progress made?

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Re:Ask HN: For side projects, do you Git from the start, or ... by jamil7 on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:34AM (#21968626)
I would generally initialise a repo when I start the project. I would grab a gitignore from https://gitignore.io and not think to much more about it. You don't have to be super formal with your commits as you would when working with others.
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