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that's a dumb thing to say. It's reasonably frequent that the best tool for a job is one that scales from the smallest possible use case (individual) to the largest, smoothly and without hassle. Git fits this criterion. SVN is a real pain by comparison.


Well, I believe in YAGNI. Throwing the biggest possible solution onto a small problem because it might get a large problem is speculative thinking. Which is bad.


That's different. YAGNI (e.g. starting with oracle where sqlite is probably all you need) is different to using tools designed to (reasonably transparrently) scale from the smallest use case to the largest.




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