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#649 Checkpoints / Snapshots

Opened by VaZark on February 14, 2022
VaZark on February 14, 2022

I’m Still trying to understand pijul and I’d like some clarification.

  1. Is there a way to create releases/tags with pijul ?
  2. If all the changes are played on top of each other, is there a way to create checkpoints/snapshots of the whole code? It can serve as a point of reference when creating changes only for code that might updated/deprecated in the following version of the application maintained
coconut on February 28, 2022

Does pijul support saving files similarly to git? Here I mean that git actually serves as a backup of previous files (although it only saves the deltas to save space). I would say the answer is yes, since it is a version control system, but a definitive answer would be ideal. I cannot answer you as of yet as I am way too new to pijul, I know almost next to nothing about it. A checkpoint could be the contents of a file or files at a certain “revision” that is immutable. When it comes to git, you can easily just git checkout a particular commit, and boom, your files are there.

Since I see that there are “tags” on this website, I would say yes, you can create tags. This website is a front-end to pijul.