Subversion, Subversive/Subclipse and the Team menu are also pretty useful for making sure you don't lose files or changes. ;)

I have always wondered if there was a way to do this.

@steven

Yeah, I am a large fan of subversion. I use it on all my personal projects and recommend it to all my clients. What I meant in the post above by "just freshly debugged and not yet in version control." was that while the file was looking really good, I had not committed the file as it was just yet. I do not line checking in versions that do not run.

I am, however, open to ideas. At what stage of developing a component do you commit?

DW

Restore from Local History works like a charm. Except when you accidentally delete an entire project and also check 'also delete contents'.
I did this the other week, and there's no coming back from it.. :-(

> At what stage of developing a component do you commit?
>
Depends....

If I'm working in a branch I tend to hold on to changes until they are working. This is because most times branch changes are pretty small bug fixes and minor functional additions, so it doesn't actually take that long to make those changes anyway.

If I'm working in the trunk, I try to remember to submit in every couple of hours. Usually when I've added some discrete bit of functionality (whether it works or not). I've had issues in the past where I've wanted to go back to a revision in the local history only to discover that its outside of the local history range. I tend to work on the premise that trunk, while it should work, is mostly likely going to be broken.

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Yes, Carl is right! I second him on the CTRL + Z issue if pressed in the Navigator pane, and it's a "pane" in the arse cause it really does undo changes made at the file structure level (creation / renaming), which are very common tasks accomplished by a developer. However it does not undo the deletion of files, just as well as it does not magically redo the deleted files (by accidentally pressing ctrl + z) if you think of trying ctrl + y to restore.

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