Question

I’m wondering how other programmers are backing up changes that are not under source control yet, be it new files or modified ones. I’m mostly referring to medium size jobs – hardly worth the effort of making a private branch, but taking more than a day to complete.

This is not a vendor-specific question – I’d like to see if various products have different solutions to the problem. I’d appreciate answers referring to SVN and distributed SCCs, though. I’m mostly wondering about that latters (Mercurial, GIT etc.) – it’s great that you have your own local repo, but do you back it up on a regular basis along with your source files?

Note – I’m not asking about a general backup strategy. For that, we have IT. I’m seeking the best way to keep locally modified stuff backed-up before they are checked back into the main repo.

Answer 1

When you say:

hardly worth the effort of making a
private branch, but taking more than a
day to complete

I would say you are wrong. Even if it only took an hour or so to complete, I would put it under version control.