I use Git and have a work flow similar to what you are describing. My git 
commits are usually frequent, focused and sometimes staged. But I also manually 
copy the entire project folder or repository at various points in time and put 
it in a manual backup or history folder. I usually keep the last 20 or more of 
these manual backups.

This frees me up for doing what ever crazy thing I want in the active git 
repository. If it starts going south I can just throw it all away (along with 
the Xcode project specific "DerivedData" directory), pull out a prior "version" 
from the manual backup directory and start fresh again. The whole process takes 
about a minute and has been bullet proof.

I still use Git for reviewing history, managing branches, merging changes from 
one branch to another, etc., but this modified workflow has made my day to day 
development go much faster.

--Richard Somers

On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Yi Lin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I do use Git, and take advantaging of its staging abilities. But sometimes,
> I want to do some quick experiments and want to get back to a previous
> state. Kind of like undoing with Command-Z except it involves multiple
> files.
> 
> Yes, theoretically, Git can do all that. But are you telling me people who
> use Git never invoke undo? Snapshot would work more like named, multi-file
> undo for me, rather than as VC.
> 
> But still, I just want Snapshot to work. Right now it doesn't, except on
> the simplest of projects.


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