On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:49:48PM -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> 
> >>There you go Alan, the answer to your question.  Use SVN.  :-)
> > 
> > Umm, but what I took from your posting is that I would still get a copy of
> > the complete file. Is that not so? After all one would be dumping the
> > "complete revision" as it would be when fed to the compiler, no?
> 
> What Shawn told you is a diff, not a backup. A diff between two revisions
> is not really an "incremental backup". And one shouldn't do backups of a
> sandbox anyway, you should do backups of the repository. Which has nothing
> to do with what Shawn wrote.

I'd disagree on that. Backing up your sandbox should be done the most
often, because you sandbox is what you are most likely to delete by
accident, wiping away your most recent changes.

That said, having that backup be done on the same computer is probably
just fine, and the increments can be deleted quite regularly as anything
old will be handled by revision control.

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