At 06:46 PM 6/25/2004 -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>On Jun 25, 2004, at 7:32 AM, David VanHorn wrote:
>
>>
>>>There are two functions of Source code control (like CVS.)  One is to
>>>save older versions of software; you take a snapshot at each major
>>>revision point, and then you can get back all the old versions if you
>>>want to.  Or need to.
>>
>>Disk crash
>Well, no.  Source code control stuff does not replace the need for
>backups.

That's not what I meant.
Local crash while developing.
You still need to back up the repository, but for the purpose of preserving the source, nobody needs to back up their working copies.



>>or "aw hell, I just copied the old stuff over the new stuff"
>That's more likely, although a lot of source code control doesn't do
>much when you're actively editting something.  you can get back the
>last committed versions, but if you just wiped out 6 hours work by
>overwriting the source code with the jcl to compile it (been there,
>done that), you're out of luck.

Yes.

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