@dznz @tess I sometimes wonder how many beginners truly "have" to learn to drive a VCS, and how many just get it pushed at them as one more thing they 'should' learn, when their energy would be better spent on gaining a solid foothold in their chosen language.

The perspicacious ones will *always* seek out whatever tools pros are using, and the rest are probably being abused by being told the lie that they *need* a VCS to program. It isn't true, *especially* for a tool as user-hostile as git is.