[TxMt] feature request: autosave

[Paul Nordstrom August]

well as you can guess I'm not the expert here ;)

But the *functionality* I'd like is an action so each time I save a 
file the previous version gets put in a designated backup folder with a 
datestamp, e.g. "index.php.20050114_2015" or the like. Really 
whatever's easiest!

thanks!
Paul

On 14 Jan 2005, at 19:36, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2005, at 9:59, Paul Nordstrom August wrote:
>
>> Anyway that shows how fast TM has progressed. Just about the only 
>> thing I miss (because I screwed up a bunch o' code today ;) is the 
>> autosave feature where each file is backed up before each change. Can 
>> we please have that in TM for us klutzes?
>
> With a flattering introduction like yours, I can't possibly turn that 
> request down ;)
>
> So should I do it *nix style and append ~ to the backup-files, or a 
> prefix like .backup?
>
> When saving the new file there are two options, rename the old and 
> write the new, or copy the old (into the backup) and overwrite the 
> new. While the first seems to be the obvious solution, it will give 
> the “new” file a new inode, which will break hardlinks. Aliases should 
> still work because they use the path before the inode, so maybe it's 
> okay (just thinking out load here)...