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On 10/25/18 8:59 AM, songbird wrote:
> i'm sometimes developing code and in the process manage to mess it up
> where it isn't backed up or in any other spot, but i do have this 
> habit of keeping a terminal open with text and i sometimes cat or 
> scroll files there so as long as i don't shut down the system i can 
> go there and cut and paste things.
> 
> today this saved me a mild panic as i'd written some code and then 
> thought i'd copied it, but then i'd clobbered that copy doing 
> something else.
> 
> *whew*
> 
> and yes, i do make backups here or there, but sometimes i work
> faster than i do that.  i also use git, but i don't always stash
> temporary copies all the time.  today i actually did make a temporary
> copy, but that copy i clobbered on purpose and then said "oops"  :)
> 
> i started looking at undelete file utilities and then said, hey 
> perhaps i have this scrolled in another terminal...
> 
> now the really nice feature would be if i actually made this into a 
> system where my vi editor would automagically scroll it for me in 
> some window... that will be for some other time.  i don't want to
> get sidetracked any more for the moment.  gardens are sidetracking
> me enough...
> 
> just some thoughts in passing.  :)


I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's.  Its
file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2].  I want that on my Debian
machines.


2018-10-25 17:27:39 dpchrist@vstretch ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.5

2018-10-25 17:28:26 dpchrist@vstretch ~
$ uname -a
Linux vstretch 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u6 (2018-10-08)
x86_64 GNU/Linux

2018-10-25 17:28:29 dpchrist@vstretch ~
$ apt-cache search versioning file system
copyfs - Versioning filesystem for FUSE
davfs2 - mount a WebDAV resource as a regular file system
dvcs-autosync - Automatically synchronize distributed version control
repositories
fsvs - Full system versioning with metadata support
fusedav - filesystem to mount WebDAV shares
incron - cron-like daemon which handles filesystem events
python-migrate - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - Python 2.7
python-migrate-doc - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - doc
python3-migrate - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - Python 3.x


Has anybody tried copyfs, fsvs, or anything else with file versioning?


David


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system

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versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 02:40 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 04:50 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
  Re: versioning file system songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-26 05:10 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
      Re: versioning file system Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 06:50 +0100
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-29 08:00 +0100
    Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-26 16:00 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 23:30 +0200
      Re: versioning file system David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 00:30 +0200
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-27 02:30 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 23:50 +0200
      Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-28 15:50 +0100
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-29 04:00 +0100
          Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-30 10:50 +0100
            Re: versioning file system Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-30 11:50 +0100
              Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-30 19:10 +0100

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