On 10/25/18 7:33 PM, songbird wrote:
David Christensen wrote: ...I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's. Its file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2]. I want that on my Debian... what i really need to do is trust and use git commits more but i have a block about some things... *sigh*
When programming, I tend to do check-in's when I make some kind of progress (ideally, the code builds and the test suite passes).
The trap is when I work for a while, make some progress, make a wrong turn, and then make a mess. A versioning file system makes it easy to get back to "make some progress" and try a different turn.
The compromise is to do a "work in progress" check-in prior to risky turns. David