Commits are lightweight SHA hashes, objects within Git. As long as you're working with text files, you won't need to worry about how many files you have, how big they are, or how many commits you make ...

In 2010, Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious, posted the following on Hacker News: When I first started delicious, we had to host most of the services ourselves. CVS, mail, mailing lists, etc ...