On 9/14/2016 3:09 PM, David Balažic wrote:
> Tim Scott wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sometimes I don't commit stuff to the repository, because it doesn't work yet.
>> Sometimes that can take a while to get right - I might put the work aside whilst I
>> work on something else.
>> Sometimes there's a lot of work put into getting something written and it's
>> nearly there, but not nearly ready to be releasable.
>>
>> This happened very recently. Just before a complete, total, fundamental and
>> unrecoverable hard drive crash on my machine - there was no chance of
>> recovering the files and the drive was encrypted.
>>
>> So I've lost a lot of work - in particular an intricate learning exercise I'd carried
>> out trying out a new module with a new set of libraries ... but just wasn't quite
>> there as it was flaky and only performed at about 2.5% of the speed of the thing
>> it was replacing.
>>
>> Is there a way to have tortoise automate the backup of my working copy
>> folders? This must include changed, deleted and unversioned files.
> I'll chime in here.
> Sometimes developers leave uncommitted files in their WC when they leave at the end of the day.
> Regardless what branch(es) they use.
>
> If the PC dies during the night, work is lost.
> Regular backups help, but as most of the WC is in the repository, backing up the entire WC "wastes" backup space.
>
> So I repeat (almost) the same question (in case someone figured out some solution):
> Can the backup be persuaded to ignore files that are already stored on the SVN server?
> A half solution is to ignore the .svn folder(s) in the backup process. (saving about 50)
You can use svn status to see which files are modified/unversioned and
then have your backup script only backup these files (which haven't been
committed to the repository yet).
> Any other idea?
> Currently I use Windows builtin file backup, but that could change.
> The client systems are using Windows 7.
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Regards,
Stefan Hett
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