[TxMt] Re: Auto Save and Versions

[Carpii UK]

Put me down for another person who wouldn't find this useful personally.

Thats not a reason not to add it, but IF it's added, Id really hope it
doesn't interfere with TM's ability to over AFP/NFS,  on remote
filesystems that don't support versioning.

On 17/10/2014, Tobias Jung <mylists at ct-jung.de> wrote:
> Igor K wrote (Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:33:14 +0300):
>
>> Well I use Git myself a lot, but mostly for development.
>>
>> Sometimes though I’m working on some random text files, like articles
>> or markdowns that are not being versioned and initing a git repository
>> for each and every of them sounds like a really bad idea.
>
> I see your point but when Allan says that supporting Apple's versioning "can
> be a bit of a straitjacket" I fear that it might have some disadvantages, so
> IF that is the case I'd prefer TextMate not to support it.
>
> Just like you, I use TextMate on a lot of "non-development" files that
> aren't located in a git repository, so I use Michael Lehmkuhl's way to
> "Backup on save":
> <http://wiki.macromates.com/Main/Howtos#BackupOnSave>
>
> ... well, I changed it a bit to include the original path in the backup
> path, i.e. when the file I'm working on is
> /Users/tob/Documents/PlainText/Articles/SomeFile.txt
> it'll be backuped as
> /Users/tob/TextMate-Backups/20141017/Documents/PlainText/Articles/SomeFile.txt.201410117200614.tmbackup
>
> Of course, this doesn't provide any kind of interface to browse those files
> so you have to rely on the Finder; but it works well for me.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tobias Jung
>
>
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