And thanks you for supporting it and describing it better :) 

This is an addition I hacked but I lost the code ^^ (was really hacks). 
I’m pretty sure that would be easy to implement for « core dev » .

Basically, this is another save as, maybe  « save version  » ?  
Then the "save as » should be deactivated in launcher probably.

Cheers,
Cédrick

> Le 15 mai 2020 à 11:13, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> a écrit :
> 
> I find I do the same sort of precautionary measure (and probably would do it 
> more if launcher supported this use case and helped me manage those snaphot 
> images) - I view it a bit like how TimeMachine lets you see previous versions 
> of files - yes the source code is versioned, but its just the useful 
> execution state and window layouts that are handy to hold on to. Equally, I 
> don't need too many of these images - and indeed want them to expire (but 
> happy to manage that myself - its just a simple counter, or time snapshot 
> that would make this very handy).
> 
> Thanks for mentioning it Cedrick
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Fri, 15 May 2020, at 8:54 AM, Cédrick Béler wrote:
>> Thanks for the explanation Christophe.
>> 
>> The tree might be a good idea.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> I actually changed once the "save as » in a « save checkpoint charly » 
>>>> where it saves a copy but still load the default name. Might be an option 
>>>> ? :)
>>> 
>>> « Saves a copy » : do you mean you copy the full folder to another name ?
>> 
>> I mean that when I « save as », I do it mainly because I know my next 
>> code evaluation could crash the image ^^.
>> 
>> So basically, what I need is to save a copy of the image (timestamped 
>> eventually) but still using the original one. **So later, in case of 
>> crash, I can roll back to a previous backup**.
>> 
>> That is far easier to implement I guess than the tree and that would be 
>> **very** useful to me at least ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Not sure, but I also think we should enforce by default to share the 
>> iceberg repo. For most people, top save sandwich, etc, it seems a 
>> better direction to me. This is optional right now but can’t we change 
>> the default ?
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Cédrick
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Christophe
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 


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