Automatic file-versioning (like Dropbox)

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is there a tool that does automatic file-versioning (for local files), like dropbox? Seeing how easy it is to restore older versions using dropbox compared to svn...

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I know how svn and dropbox are intendend for very different purposes, and that svn provides much much more functionality, but the truth is that for my usual coding-work on my small projects I hardly need those and automatic commits & updates would really be wonderfull, considering how much time I've wasted because I screwed something up in svn.

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score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 10 '13 at 06:28

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FileHamster monitors a folder and automatically keeps previous version. AutoVer does the same and is free. It would be my recommendation!

Both let you traverse previous versions and can backup everytime you hit save or every so often or a combination of both. Not sure if AutoVer copes well with MS Office tmp files though.

AutoVer also lets you run a post-backup command which I keep meaning to make use of to create diff files...

edited Feb 10 '13 at 06:28

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FileHampster is still available for download, but it looks like the last version was released June, 2010. – BillyNair Sep 16 '15 at 17:41
Thanks for recommending AutoVer. Didn't know it and really looks like a interesting solution. – Jürgen Hörmann Mar 15 '17 at 09:29

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

I would use:

a bare git repo on a USB key (see "developing at home and office, would GIT be easier than SVN using xcopy?")
combined with a post-commit hook (see "How configure automatic pushing?")

You could even go as far as to do a commit (and its associated push) every time you save a file in your IDE (like a "on save" action in Eclipse), but the result would be messy (way too many commits).
An on-demand action to commit every file at a given time, or a scheduled action (every hour for instance) is more appropriate.

Automatic file-versioning (like Dropbox)

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