[ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

[Gareth France]

Sounds great. My backups are stored on a hard drive here so can't be
compromised but I'd love to find a way to automate it. I'll look into this
later.

On 17 Sep 2014 08:21, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 September 2014 07:34, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do keep regular backups however the issue is that this has been sitting
> > silently for some time and changes made since the last clean backup would
> > have been lost.
>
> A VCS is much more than a set of backups.  Since the master resides
> away from the website the hacks would never have got into the
> repository.  But even if they had somehow got there you could find the
> commit that stored them, unroll just that commit (and put back any
> valid changes made during that commit) and magically your master would
> then be fixed without loosing changes made since then.
>
> Even more than that git gives you a complete history of all the
> changes you have ever made, so when something stops working, but you
> do not notice imediately, you can go back through the history until
> you find the point at which it stopped working so that you can rapidly
> find what it was you did wrong.
>
> Give git a go, it is trivial to setup and once you start using it you
> will wonder how you ever managed without it.  Seriously.  There are
> many tutorials on getting started.
>
> Colin
>
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