I do this too but another tool I use is my CD burner. I use CD-R disks and
that way I can roll back a session to recover an older version if needed.
That way I am also covered if my system goes down.

Larry


At 08:53 PM 2/25/03 +0200, you wrote:
>For version control with MPLAB C18 I use one directory for development,
>and create backup directories.  When I need to restore, I copy from the
>backup directory to development directory.  Like the following:
>
>C:\Projects\Alarm\Dev\
>
>In here is the project and everything.  And copy everything under that
>directory to the backup directories:
>
>C:\Projects\Alarm\030205 - Backup\
>C:\Projects\Alarm\030205 - Released 1.0\
>C:\Projects\Alarm\030212 - Backup\
>C:\Projects\Alarm\030223 - Backup\
>C:\Projects\Alarm\030225 - Released 1.1\
>
>Etc.
>
>When I need to restore, I copy the whole directory back to the dev
>directory.  This works just fine for me.
>
>Note that by keeping the directory names like yymmdd and put
>descriptions like backup, released, I can go back to any saved backup,
>by just copying that directory to the C:\Projects\Alarm\Dev\ directory.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Omer
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pic microcontroller discussion list
>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Harold Hallikainen
>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:46 PM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: [PIC]: MPLAB version control?
>
>      What are people using for version control on MPLAB? With MPLAB
>prior to version 6, when making a change in my code, I'd copy everything
>over to a new directory that was based on the date, then modify the prj
>file to point to the new directory (it'd be nice if source file path
>references were relative instead of absolute, then no changes would be
>required). With MPLAB 6, it doesn't look like the project files
>themselves can be modified like this. Instead, I'm copying the source
>files over and defining a new project. One project has a lot of C files,
>and it's a pain to define a new project with all of them. So, what are
>the rest of you doing?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Harold
>
>
>
>
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