Re: backup files for files under VC

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Also if the problem you saw was that after:
>
> 1 - edit file
> 2 - "cvs remove" (or "git remove" or "bzr remove")
>
> the edit was lost, maybe the right place to solve it is in
> cvs/git/bzr: revision control systems generally place a lot of
> emphasis on not losing any data, so they may/should provide a way to
> undo the "cvs remove" and recover the edits you've made in "file".

It is actually quite hard to do a terminal mistake when using git.
Pretty much everything is recorded in the reflog, and you can rewind to
any intermediate state in the last 3 months or so.

The downside is of course that accidentally checked-in large amounts of
binary garbage are rather hard to get out of the system in a way that
they stop taking disk space.

Anyway, Torsten still has not reported what version control he is using
and what particular problem he encountered.

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