On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:14:38PM -0600, Dwain Alford wrote:
| Regarding specifically:
The second thing that falls on my mind is making directories named by
dates. For example: 04-12-2018, 05-12-2018 etc. Or maybe even "/home/$USER/selected_directory/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DATE/filename*.svg". At times I did crave for being able to go back in time with finding some WIP versions of a file...
| This sounds like the perfect reason to use a versioning tool like git. Perhaps a future project is integrating git revisioning with inkscape?
i don't know about others, but "the cloud" is not my cup of tea. having files of any kind in storage that is not close by in a physical state, that lounge about on "someone else's server" makes me nervous.
As Maren already pointed out, git by itself is not a cloud technology. At it's heart it's just version control.
git is quite powerful, and would provide a far more sophisticated way to manage change history for a document beyond a simple linear history that date-based saves provide. However, the greater flexibility means it may introduce complexity, potentially being a bit overkill.
That said, I agree it would make an excellent future project for someone to undertake experimentally. There are almost certainly some interesting use cases for it. Chris or others interested in this concept, if you'd like, please add it to our projects page in wiki:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Projects
think about what recently happened with the request for assistance to take inkscape and produce a proprietary software program based on the open source code produced by the programmers that have dedicated their lives to produce and continue to make better software that is freely given. i saw the possibility of losing inkscape and the years of hard, dedicated work in a flash.
Fwiw, I am certain none of us here would ever allow such a thing to happen.
Bryce