Time Machine would not have saved me.

[lionsphil]

15:05 < LionsPhil> cp ../swkm2008-book.bib ../swkm2008-book.tex <-- That was missing a ./ argument on the end, that was. 15:06 < LionsPhil> Thank Eris for frequent SVN commits.
(A versioning filesystem [On a common desktop OS? Har Har.] would be even better, but thankfully the last commit was just before copying those files into

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[real_skeptic]

Why wouldn't have Time Machine saved you? Well, assuming that this was not the work of a single hour. It could have saved you except for the work of the last hour.

[lionsphil]

Exactly. Time Machine is not versioning. It's incremental nightly backups. It's a typical half-arse solution, as Apple increasingly adopt the UNIX mentality.

[ext_72852]

mair@nelly:~ $ grep -C 2 cp .bashrc
alias ll='ls -al --color=always'
alias rm='rm -ir'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
#alias irssi='echo irssi is for wimps'
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