Re: Version control system for the laziest of the lazy

Exactly what I need MOST of the time.

Sure, definitive source versions end up in clearcase. But most of the time I'm fiddling around in ~/scrapbin and don't have anything definitive enough to actually check in, but still want to fuddle around and keep iterations.

What I may do is rip this to teeny pieces and add an "only create a backup if it would be different" feature.

Then I'd just include it in my "every 5 second" build/test loop

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Re^2: Version control system for the laziest of the lazy by toolic (Bishop) on Apr 07, 2011 at 16:20 UTC
only create a backup if it would be different I've been wanting a simple "backup every file in my directory if it has changed since the last backup" feature myself, but just haven't gotten to it.	[reply]
Re^3: Version control system for the laziest of the lazy by Voronich (Hermit) on Apr 07, 2011 at 16:51 UTC
I was thinking about this over lunch and I realized that to TRULY capture the spirit of this script the right thing would be to de-dupe the backup directory afterwards, perhaps create a second shell script that grabbed MD5s of files in a directory with matching base filenames and removed later ones that matched. Me	[reply]
Re^4: Version control system for the laziest of the lazy by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 07, 2011 at 17:24 UTC
How would you handle deletes? --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^5: Version control system for the laziest of the lazy by Voronich (Hermit) on Apr 07, 2011 at 17:28 UTC