Use a repository!
I don’t know how many times my friends have said they lost their work and they had no way of going back. This may sound harsh but I have no sympathy for them. They should have used a repository.
It is very easy to set up a local repository using subversion. Subversion allows you to check in your changes and have a way of rolling back. For those that are working collaboratively and would like to extend themselves, they can look into using subversion as an apache extension. This is quite a bit more tricky but much more rewarding. An easier way of setting up the extension would be to use svnadmin, a web based administration console for you subversion server.
Collaboratively subversion allows teams of developers to work on the same project concurrently without having to worry about merging code.Â
So now you know about subversion you have no excuse to lose your work ever again!
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