I was looking for an easy way to backup an android project in eclipse and found this question: Android is there a easy way to back up your android project? the selected answer states that "You can also revert to a previous version if you are using Eclipse. Eclipse has this nice functionality called Local history that allows it. Right click on a file and use "compare with..." -> "Local History"."
However when I right click on the project and click compare with I only see the diabled option “Each other”
I checked Preferences > General > Workspace > Local History but everything seems ok.
Why isn’t Eclipse backing up my project? What do I do to enable the option compare with local history?
EDIT I was clicking on the project folder and realised this function only works for individual files, what I am looking for is to restore the entire project. Is it possible to enable this on Eclipse?
Nope, it just does it file per file. Eclipse is not meant to be used as a version control mechanism. Notice that even though that’s the “accepted” answer, it has only one upvote. The one with more upvotes is what you’re looking for in this case. Just invest a little time to use a real Version control mechanism (like Git).
Also, Eclipse would not really “back up” anything, since everything would still be local and if your hard drive crashed, everything would be bye bye anyway.