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I predict one day we will look back and be horrified that there was ever a time where you can't just roll back an entire system to an arbitrary timestamp to und
by arnioxux 9y ago
I predict one day we will look back and be horrified that there was ever a time where you can't just roll back an entire system to an arbitrary timestamp to undo accidental changes.
In some sense this is already achievable if you just always work inside a Dropbox folder (which keeps a 30 day history of any synced changes). But resources aren't yet cheap enough for all changes to be immutable.
- reustle 9y agoI don't use it, but isn't that what Time Machine on MacOS does?
- slindz 9y agoIt has been trivially easy to restore files and folders in situations like this with TimeMachine for a very long time. Thinking of what it would be like to go back to a world without similar functionality makes me shudder.
- valpertui 9y agoOn mac os you have system built-in version control on most text based file by default. I recovered lost work with it in a discard once (discarded on the wrong branch and no stash to reapply). https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18862?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18862?locale=en_US