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Sine decades I wish this would be a std. OS or FS feature!
by still_grokking 6y ago
Sine decades I wish this would be a std. OS or FS feature!
- vtbassmatt 6y agoVMS did it: https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/File_version https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/File_version
- dreamcompiler 6y agoIndeed. I still miss VMS because of its automatic versioning, with version numbers being an explicit field of the pathname.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoIt's something that exists in macOS, but as far as I know applications have to explicitly choose to use it. Most applications that support it have a "File > Revert To > Browse All Versions..." command available. BBEdit -- as often the case -- has a more useful variant of it, which brings up a diff window with "Search > Find Differences > Compare Against Previous Version". (It actually lets you choose any recorded previous version.)
- boring_twenties 6y agoBack in the stone age I worked at a place that used a VCS called ClearCase. It supported exactly this, you'd be able to append things like @revision or @branchname or @timestamp to file and directory names to access them. Unfortunately, it required (IIRC) three full time people to administer the server. As for the client (my workstation), it required a proprietary kernel module which would panic about once a week. I'm told our license cost $1m/year (2001 dollars).