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git is hurting my productivity

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Pretty much all my life I've been working alone [1].  Working alone it
matters little whether I commit often or not.  It turns out I don't like
to commit just because I wrote some new function.  I don't think git
should be used as some kind of backup system, although it is.  I prefer
to make commits that contain integral new additions to the software.  I
like a history that's organized.  As a result, I sometimes rewrite
history to fix some of these mistakes I make.  I know enough about it to
really clean things up and rewrite the history---it's okay because I'm
working alone.  But then this week I spend three days cleaning things
up.  That's no good, man.  What for?  Nobody is watching my repository.
I'm just wasting my time.  I'm even going to collapse this entire
repository into a single commit very soon out of spite.  There's no
chance I'm ever using any previous version.  I should just go back to
life without version control unless I'm working with somebody else.  If
I ever want a backup, I can just ``cp -pR v1 v2''.

(*) Footnotes

[1] When I used git in companies, people just used it as a method for
uploading code somewhere anyway, so it was mostly useless as a version
control system.

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git is hurting my productivity Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-11-10 18:26 -0300
  Re: git is hurting my productivity 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-11-11 02:15 +0100
    Re: git is hurting my productivity 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-11-11 02:29 +0100
  Re: git is boosting my productivity Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-11 02:13 +0000

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