Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hey that is a great tip! I used to use an old OS 9 utility to do something similar between old and new code bases. Bob On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/9/12 10:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> Then there is the process of retrieving lost data. You can't just open up >> an

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It's not what you're looking for (which would be great, I agree) but on > desperate occasions I have opened two stacks as text files in BBEdit and > run "find differences" on them. > Yep, when I know it's just script changes I'm looking

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Haworth
The Unix diff command can compare two files and create a set of edit statements to recreate one from the other. I'm assuming GLX2 could make use of that when storing new versions of scripts. Moving from there to store edit statements to recreate a complete stack file would be possible but I imagi

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/9/12 10:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Then there is the process of retrieving lost data. You can't just open up any of these backups because they have exactly the same stack name as the stack you are working on. It's not what you're looking for (which would be great, I agree) but on desperate

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I have, several times. It's on my list of bacon-saving devices. > Yes, and on my list as well, along with TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner. But my comments were more a reflection of how complex, laborious and space wasting the current si

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Charles- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:28:41 AM, you wrote: > I haven't had to use it yet, I have, several times. It's on my list of bacon-saving devices. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/9/12 12:28 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: Kay: It's been pointed out here before. (I'm sorry I don't remember by whom... was it you, Jacquie?) that you can use Dropbox in this way. Of course you need a net connection. If you keep your stacks in your Dropbox desktop folder, Dropbox will store

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Kay: It's been pointed out here before. (I'm sorry I don't remember by whom... was it you, Jacquie?) that you can use Dropbox in this way. Of course you need a net connection. If you keep your stacks in your Dropbox desktop folder, Dropbox will store 30 days worth of previous versions, or ALL pa