Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Howard Bornstein bornstein at designeq.com
Fri Feb 7 15:36:19 EST 2014


Hi Geoff,

I've been using Scott Rossi's trick of putting a "player app" in Dropbox
and having it load in my current stack into IOS via a text link. (
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-February/167981.html)

It is so helpful to be able to make a change in my current app in the
editor on my computer, save the stack to Dropbox, and have the changes
immediately appear in my IOS app on my iPhone.

However, I don't see the stack versioning you describe in any of my stack
files on Dropbox. Is there something specific one needs to do in order to
invoke this characteristic of Dropbox?

-- 
Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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www.designeq.com

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if this has been posted before, but just in case: If you store
> your stack files in the dropbox folder on your computer, dropbox does a
> really good job of saving a copy of each separate file whenever the file is
> saved. You can look at a list of the saved versions and get/restore any of
> them.
>
> It's not git, but as a file-level resource it's a 1000x better than
> nothing. I borked up some code last night (never try to solve a problem at
> 3am that stumped you at 9pm) so I'm really happy that I can just revert to
> the 9pm version and forget whatever it is I did later on.
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