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Not Everything Belongs in a Repository

The Instinct to Commit Everything

As developers, we’re trained to put things somewhere “proper”:

  • version control
  • documentation
  • tickets
  • dashboards

That instinct is useful — until it isn’t.

The Things That Don’t Age Well

Some artifacts are only useful for a moment:

  • a one-off data sample
  • an intermediate transformation
  • a temporary reference during debugging

Committing these often creates more confusion than clarity.

A Lighter Approach

Instead of asking “Where should this live?”
I ask “How long should this exist?”

If the answer is “five minutes,” then the tooling should match that lifespan.

Letting Go Is a Skill

Temporary workflows are not sloppy.
They’re intentional.

Knowing when not to formalize something has saved me more time than any framework ever did.

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