>One can look at VCS as a type of backup.
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>How many times have you had to go into a backup and recover something?
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Many, many times. That's why I do it.
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>BTW, I'm not the only one that touts the importance of version control.
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For sure. When I was managing large groups of mainframe programmers, several of whom might be working on one project, I insisted that they use VCS.

For programmers like myself who serve the SMB market and rarely have more than one developer working on a single project, VCS is a needless complexity.
Backups do the job.