Re: philosophical question about frequent saving of files

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> On Aug 29, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:
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> Ok, so you agree that these experiments shouldn't automatically be  
> checked in, e.g. VCS is not the right storage for intermediate  
> snapshots.

I"m not arguing for automatic checkins.
I"m wondering why it's not enough as a backup.

I quite often diff, for the same purposes you want, against the
previous delta. Shouldn't that be enough for accidents?


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> The versions tab is not just used for figuring out what changed -  
> it's also a way to go back. You said yourself that you check out  
> fresh copies to do experiments. Why should you have to - make your  
> experiments right here, and revert back if it doesn't pan out.


If I need to make an experiment in a file, I need to check it (out of
sccs) anyway. There's my backup.

Aren't sccs deltas "personal"?