Summer of Code Proposal - Looking for a mentor

[Matthew Woehlke]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 08 March 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
>> eg. in korganizer there's a wish for no backups for calendar files;
>> numbered backups for calendar files, and simple ~ based backups.
> 
> imho the "real" solution is to use an scm (e.g. git) to provide dialog-less 
> saving, backups and timeline/journal-based rollback support.

No, the "real" solution is to use a VC file system (git, zfs, something 
of that nature) and always save changes every few minutes ala kjots ;-).

(I have, at times, considered doing my backups to git, or at least 
putting large chunks of my disk into a git repo. The biggest problem is 
that - both to not use unreasonable amounts of space, and for 
privacy/security reasons - you need something where you can purge 
content, which most VCS's deliberately don't satisfy.)

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