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No. That's an online backup of your system. A version control should clearly mark versions you'd ever like to go back to or merge; "save" is not enough for that (many IDEs save every time you compile, and most of the time that's definitely not a version I would like to refer to in the future)

Too much noise/versions is ALSO bad. I'm quite happy with having to tell git every hour or so "this is a version I'd like to go back to"; and continuous zfs snapshots when I want to undo an unplanned delete of the last 20 minutes of work and immediate IDE crash (otherwise, ctrl-z is just as good).

Right tool for the right job.



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