On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:31:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2017 00:09:31 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: > > > On Friday 17 March 2017 05:49:30 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > 3 times. The problem with that is that the status of the backup was > > > 15 to 20 hours old, so I lost that days work and had to re-invent > > > that particular batch of work. > > > > FWIW, I also thought that you lost 6 months of work based on what you > > wrote initially. Happy to hear that the damage is much less. But even > > that can be very frustrating, right? > > > > Along with the backups, may I suggest you to store all your work in > > version control such as git so that even if the editor crashes, you > > can recover everything up until the last commit. > > I have considered something along those lines, but mentally I can't seem > to make the coupling between a single file that has to be ready to go > anytime I run linuxcnc -l (where the -l says to use the same config it > used the last time) and a git database that usually has to be compiled > before its capable of running. Normally we keep a separate directory > for each machine configuration, although there may be N parallel > directories as the configuration is developed. So it looks like: /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150603.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150603.2/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150605.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150608.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150803.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150803.2/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-B-20150603.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-B-20150805.1/configfile /cncmaster/cnc-machine-B-20150805.2/configfile or something similar? This is a perfect case for git (which does not require any compilation). Right now your workflow is, basically: mkdir /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20170809.1 cp /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20150608.1/configfile \ /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20170809.1/ edit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20170809.1/configfile linuxcnc /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20170809.1/configfile ....wait.... .... inspect .... ..... sigh ..... edit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A-20170809.1/configfile and loop until you get it right? Replace all that file and directory management with git. edit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A/config git commit /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A/config linuxcnc /cncmaster/cnc-machine-A/config and when you want to go back to a previous version you can either get a diff to apply or pull the old version out directly. Subversion (SVN) would also work well instead of git, here. git is more powerful, but not necessarily in a compelling way for you. -dsr-
