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accrual on March 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write plain text files

> "Git for everything"

macOS Time Machine and Windows Shadow Copy aren't perfect git-based versioning systems, but it's nice something in the general direction exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy

m_eiman on March 2, 2022 [–]

macOS also has support for local file history, even if many apps try to ignore these features: https://support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/mac-help/mh40710/12.0/...

When they introduces this they changed the standard file operations and replaced "Save as…" with "Save a copy" - this was not universally welcomed.

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