Greetings, Paul! > I currently take snapshots of selected portions of a folder subtree using > zip files. Sometimes, I use command-line zip, but other times I'll use the > Windows Compressed Zip folder. I find myself frequently unzipping the > snapshots into temp folders just so that I can use the unix diff utility > (via cygwin) to see what the differences are with the live folder tree. Is > there a way to take regular snapshots that I can compare with the live > folder subtree without having to unpack it? I'm not married to zip. > However, tar doesn't quite do it. My vague recollection is that it will > check that the files in a tgz snapshot matches what is in the live folder > subtree, but it won't report what is in the live folder subtree which isn't > in the tgz snapshot.
Git, Subversion... basically any sane VCS out there. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, September 22, 2015 16:10:42 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
