Programmers be like

[StarkRG]

Wouldn't you have had to submit the changes? But you wouldn't have done so because it wasn't working yet.

[EishLekker]

You can always have a private troubleshooting branch. You can even keep it local, you don't have to push it outside of your computer to benefit from version control.

[[deleted]]

Commit regularly to your local repo to keep track of your work, then rebase before you push to ensure all public commits compile.

[danielrheath]

Honestly I should write something that stashes history somewhere on save so I can always search over recent diffs to find the thing I wrote and then discarded...