When should I make the first commit to source control?

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Kendall Frey Asks:

I’m never sure when a project is far enough along to first commit to source control. I tend to put off committing until the project is ‘framework-complete,’ and I primarily commit features from then on. (I haven’t done any personal projects large enough to have a core framework too big for this.) I have a feeling this isn’t best practice, though I’m not sure what could go wrong.