On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, djidjadji <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is the GAE SDK causing more harddisk failures then average? > Am I at risk having the SDK on my harddisk? > I have it now for almost a year on my computer. No, nothing the SDK does could conceivably cause your hard disk to fail any faster than any other program. > > > Possible solutions for all coders losing there code. > 1) use an SVN/GIT/SCCS/CVS/RCS/... version control system, repository > on a different computer/harddisk (use an editor that can handle this > VCS, have a look at emacs, never to late to learn it) A wise idea no matter what you're developing. There are many free or cheap source control hosts, such as github, too. Editor support isn't essential, though. -Nick Johnson > 2) make a copy of the code daily on a different harddisk (there are > tools for this, secondcopy and such) > 3) make a copy of the code daily on an external USB device > 4) make a copy of the code daily by FTP to an external computer. > 5) make a zip of the code daily and mail it to yourself to a web based > email account (eq. gmail) (7 Gb zipped code is a lot) (maybe an > incremental zip) > > If one of these methods is too much you don't value your doodle. > > Hopefully Google will never enable the source download because google > accounts are sometimes hacked and that means that anybody can borrow > my code. > "He, John Doo has written a nice app, lets look at his source code." > > 2009/7/30 Haisheng HU <[email protected]>: > > > > In my case I just lost the source code of a project, although it is > > not a big one. (So I didn't get it into SVN or something like that.) > > It would be great to be able to download the source code from app > > engine. Gasp! > > > > Haisheng from Beijing > > > > > > On Jul 23, 5:02 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Hi Jungang, > >> > >> Using a version control system such as SVN or Git is your best bet. App > >> Engine is not intended to be used as version control. > >> > >> -Nick Johnson > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Juguang XIAO <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > This is not a usual case, but people at times may still need it. > >> > >> > I have two machines, one in office and one at home, working on the > same GAE > >> > project. My usual practice to synchronize these 2 environments is to > copy > >> > the files over my USB drive. As you can see this is very traditional > way. I > >> > once came across the idea to use a SVN server to sync, but now I think > it > >> > may be the best that GAE provides such features for us. When we do > >> > `appcfy.py update`, it is really a update or check-in. Why not just > add > >> > check-out ? > >> > >> > My 2 cents > >> > >> > Juguang > >> > >> > -- > >> > ============= > >> > Juguang XIAO > >> > Beijing, China > >> > >> -- > >> Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer > >> Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration > Number: > >> 368047 > > > > > > > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
