Yeah, except the diffs would work just fine as a backup. You can dump incrementally and then piece the repo back together with all version history if need be from the revisions. So I would disagree with you here. Also, this isn't from the sandbox, it's from the repo directly. It's an exact copy of the repo for those specific versions. If I want, I can have a repo with 10 revisions. I can split the revisions 1-5, and 6-10 in to two separate files. Reimport and I have the exact same repo as I started with. I would consider that a fine backup option. It's not ideal, but it's certainly still a backup. On 1/16/06, 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. > > Gerhard > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- Shawn Wilton (b9 Systems) http://black9.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist