On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Charles Srstka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Quincey Morris 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 15:21 , Charles Srstka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ... yes?
>>> 
>>> That's pretty impressive, though perhaps it's more indicative of mental 
>>> mastery over self than technical mastery over git?
>> 
>> Impressive? All you have to do is hit Command-Option-C. If your repository 
>> is local, as it is with a cloned git repository, it's quick — in fact, it's 
>> quite a lot faster than making a snapshot — and hitting it before making a 
>> far-reaching, possibly dangerous change to your code is pretty much a 
>> no-brainer, if you ask me.
> 
> You are much more disciplined than many other developers. This advice is 
> similar to telling someone who is forgetful to just stop being disorganized.

Perhaps, although I'm somewhat unsure of what VC is for, if not for making it 
possible to compare and revert changes that might possibly have ill effects. 
Then again, I've also made hitting Command-S every few seconds into a 
thoroughly ingrained habit, and everyone now seems to think that typing that 
short keystroke is a feat of Herculean proportions, so I dunno, maybe it's just 
me.

>> 
>> I could see doing it automatically making sense for some people, as an 
>> option, but I don't understand why it would need to use a completely 
>> separate system rather than the far more efficient version control systems 
>> that we already have.
> 
> Xcode snapshots are based on git.

Huh, so it is. I'm sure it wasn't always this way, since Xcode's snapshot 
feature predated its git support. Maybe performance will actually be decent on 
it now (the old Xcode 3 snapshots used to take until your beard grew to the 
floor to complete). It still looks like it makes a whole separate repository 
for snapshots though, which still seems like a waste of space.

Charles


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