Re^3: What is ignore.txt

I strongly second hippo's recommendation that you version control your code. It seems a bit over the top for a lone shark developer to do that, but if you commit frequently it can save you from brain farts, cats, dogs and small children interacting with your keyboard in unfortunate ways, acts of nature, hard drive failures, ...

Really, spin up a git repo somewhere in the cloud and git committing. Not tomorrow, or the day after -today is the day to do it! (Says he who has been bitten more than once!)

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

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Re^4: What is ignore.txt by cavac (Parson) on Jun 13, 2023 at 08:23 UTC
I agree with that, too. Decentralized version control (mercurial in my case) has saved me countless times. I run a setup where commits are automatically synced to multiple systems in different locations. Even a fire or bankruptcy of a cloud service leaves enough intact copies to continue "business as usual". PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP	[reply]
Re^4: What is ignore.txt by Bod (Parson) on Jun 13, 2023 at 21:25 UTC
I've followed your advice and started that journey - Version Control - GitHub and CPAN	[reply]
Re^5: What is ignore.txt by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 14, 2023 at 08:45 UTC
Well done! In days gone by I'd have recommended Mercurial and TortoiseHg, but unfortunately Git has won the video format wars. :-( Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond	[reply]
Re^6: What is ignore.txt by Bod (Parson) on Jun 14, 2023 at 20:26 UTC
In days gone by I'd have recommended Mercurial By pure chance, I read n article last evening that linked to a person's Mercurial presence. I guessed it was another platform in the Git space...	[reply]


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