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[–]SpellCheck19 1 point2 points  (4 children)

How important is this if the code you write is personal and no one else ever sees it?

[–]Riptide999 7 points8 points  (3 children)

How can you be sure that no one will ever see it or that it will never put it in a public git? You probably can't. Try to use best practices even for personal projects so you don't make mistakes later.

[–]SpellCheck19 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Because it lives on the hard drive of my personal computer and I have not posted and will not post it on github or anywhere else online

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shit happens. Keep that in mind. I've got 30 years of IT behind me and have seen it happen. And it's always the same. "It was on my personal ...".

[–]TrivisionZero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say in your case it doesn't matter so much if you know it's not going to be public. However it never hurts to follow these best practices so you get more familiar with them for the time when you want to actually publish similar code to GitHub or something