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kamen69178yIn all seriousness, if you're working on something alone, you can kind of use Google Drive as a backup - just place a project's folder inside Google Drive's synced folder.
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@kamen What happens when you screw something in a synced folder? Revert commit? Oh wait... You can't :(
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vhoyer13328y@Jormungandr you can revert the commit if you use git into the google drive synced folder xD
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kamen69178y@Sempros I'm not saying it's better than proper VCS, I'm saying it's better than nothing.
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kamen69178y@polaroidkidd Yes, I know, GitLab also does, but the point is that git may be confusing for someone who has just started learning to program. Google Drive is not the right tool for the job, but it's still a fact that it can keep your code backed up and available on multiple computers if you're working on it just by yourself.
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@kamen ah yeah, if you're just starting out I agree but I still highly recommend getting familiar with git. The basics are super simple and it won't take more than an hour to get the hang of it. Personally, I wished the git thing was done in the first week of my cs course.
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"sure, I can try to set up automatic backup of repository's working copy to Google Drive; no guarantees it actually would work. Of course that would cost you extra"
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Bytepusher1224d@kamen git is generally confusing, and totally overhyped for version control.
It's much better though than not having version control. Copying files around is not version control.
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