On 17 September 2014 07:34, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > I do keep regular backups however the issue is that this has been sitting > silently for some time and changes made since the last clean backup would > have been lost.
A VCS is much more than a set of backups. Since the master resides away from the website the hacks would never have got into the repository. But even if they had somehow got there you could find the commit that stored them, unroll just that commit (and put back any valid changes made during that commit) and magically your master would then be fixed without loosing changes made since then. Even more than that git gives you a complete history of all the changes you have ever made, so when something stops working, but you do not notice imediately, you can go back through the history until you find the point at which it stopped working so that you can rapidly find what it was you did wrong. Give git a go, it is trivial to setup and once you start using it you will wonder how you ever managed without it. Seriously. There are many tutorials on getting started. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
