[TxMt] feature request: autosave (Mats's "log file" suggestion)

[Paul Nordstrom August]

hi Mats
This is a brilliant idea and as you say is better than a bunch of 
cumbersome .bak files lying around. I haven't had too much time to 
explore the Commands (alas!) but it also sounds very feasible.

Could it be built into TM so when a project ("myproject") is created, a 
separate "myproject.log" or something is automatically created? Then 
there could be a way to "flush project log" (like flushing cache in 
Safari or Firefox)...

p.

On 15 Jan 2005, at 00:35, Mats Persson wrote:

> OK, so what do you get out of this in the end. Well, you get sort of a 
> log of all changes in an individual file in a single backup file for 
> that file with dividers that sets the date etc info as you wish to 
> have it and the code as it was at that time. Each file in your project 
> would have it's own backup log file in the BackUp repos.
>
> If you don't want a single log file but multiple files, well then that 
> can be done just as easy, although I think it's pointless to be 
> honest, because you will have to open loads of files to see what 
> changes you have made. In my version your last saved version is always 
> at the bottom of the backup file. Now this is NOT as good as you using 
> CVS or SVN, but I'm working on solving that problem as well on each 
> save.
>
> Give us (me) your spec's and I'll see what we can do about it.
>
> This command based workaround would only require Allan's mind for only 
> a few minutes to implement (I'm sure) versus something that will take 
> longer time to implement, and would not have a much better result. (at 
> least in my mind)
>
> I hope the above is ample illustration of how BBEdit can't compare to 
> TM, and how we all need to "Think Different(ly)" about TM, since many 
> things can be achieved with Commands and a bit of Unix knowledge.