Re: Saving projects

On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:35:06 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 09/12/2023 12:12, David W. Jones wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On December 9, 2023 12:59:55 AM HST, Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:  
>>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 16:53:52 -1000
>>> david <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> On 12/8/23 01:46, Will Godfrey wrote:  
>>>>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 23:22:11 -1000
>>>>> david <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> On 12/7/23 16:13, mark_at_yahoo via Rosegarden-user wrote:  
>>>>>>> On 12/7/23 13:22, david wrote:  
>>>>>>>> RCS sounds interesting. I used to work with enterprise content
>>>>>>>> management (ECM) systems. Is it command line only or is there a GUI
>>>>>>>> for it?  
>>>>>>> I've only ever used RCS from the commandline, but quick search yields:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.compuphase.com/software_rcsbrowser.htm
>>>>>>> https://docs.hpc.cam.ac.uk/storage/rcs/gui.html
>>>>>>> https://filezilla-project.org/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> although I can't immediately see how FileZilla relates, despite it
>>>>>>> being recommended by the cam.ac.uk page.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CVS is a higher-level layer built atop RCS, and there seem to be more
>>>>>>> GUI support for it:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>>> https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/platform-cvs/
>>>>>>> https://apps.kde.org/cervisia/
>>>>>>> https://github.com/KDE/cervisia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Again, I haven't used any of the above systems and only found them
>>>>>>> because your question piqued my curiosity.  
>>>>>> Ah, thanks. I should have thought to check my repository!
>>>>>>     
>>>>> These suggestions are all quite interesting but seem to be massive overkill for
>>>>> what (to me) is just wanting a simple warning
>>>>>     
>>>> Sorry, since I don't still have the original email around - what was the
>>>> original idea?
>>>>  
>>> I simply want a warning message so that I don't overwrite and existing project.
>>>
>>> This has happened to me on a number of occasions.
>>>
>>> A typical scenario is where I load an existing one, then while playing it have a
>>> bit of inspiration for an alternative version, get deeply engrossed in this and
>>> *forget* that I haven't saved it to a new project name. Stop and save. Bang!
>>> I've just wiped out the original that I wanted to keep.  
>> 
>> Ah, thanks for the reminder. Yeah, the source code control idea would be way over the top for that.
>> 
>> So, when would the warning show up? First time you went to save a project after modifying it? First time you open an existing project, something like, "Do you want to open a copy of this project?" Both?  
>
>This is a tricky one IMHO because on the other hand when working on 
>project I also want to be able to always save and not risk losing any 
>change which comes up.
>
>So any warning like that should definitely be a switchable on/off option.
>
>My two cents.
>Lorenzo

Yes. I'd be quite happy with it being switchable - that was part of my
suggestion.

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