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powlette
powlette

Reputation: 1800

Automatic "SCM" for the single developer

I want to use a versioning system to back up and track my changes but I'm too lazy to check out/check in, merge, commit, etc. I don't want to branch, fork or anything else. I just want to be able to see what files have changes and what my Main() looked like last week.

So I'm looking for an application that will simply take my Visual Studio projects folder and back it up in such a way that all prior versions of the files are preserved so I can not only have a backup, but I can easily see how the file looked at some point in the past without me having to explicitly put it in a repository, update/commit/merge/etc.

Basically what I'm looking for is dropbox's functionality but on my local machine and without the 30 day limitation of prior versions.

Does such an application exist?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 104

Answers (1)

jstarek
jstarek

Reputation: 1542

As AlexC stated, I highly doubt that the little bit of work you save by not using a version control system explicitly is worth the drawbacks, but anyway:

  • Simplest idea: Just write a wrapper script that checks out the HEAD of your repository, starts Visual Studio and commits everything to version control after you close it.

  • Alternatively, just trigger commits every hour. With most VCSes, non-modified files won't show up in the listing of modified files.

Upvotes: 1

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