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Re: [AVR-Chat] Source Control/Version Control for AVR projects

2011-10-28 by David Kelly

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:05:40AM -0600, Cat C wrote:
> 
> The DropBox was suggested ON TOP of TortoiseSVN to give you an extra
> layer of security by backing up IN REAL TIME all your changes to the
> cloud.If you have both your code and your SVN database in the DropBox
> folder, it's almost impossible to lose any data from either, even if
> all your hard disks break. To me, that's a good thing!

Agreed. If there is only one developer who moves from home to work and
back then Dropbox is a viable solution. I don't think Dropbox is all
that praiseworthy as a backup solution.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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