[fpc-other] Git & SVN

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 05/24/2017 02:12 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2017-05-24 02:11, noreply at z505.com wrote:
>> I'd rather upload/commit files to a server to insure it is backed up
>> properly...
>
> There is absolutely no guarantee that your file are any safer. So you 
> have your Army of Developers in a single building. You store all your 
> files on a Server which is in the server room in the basement of the 
> building behind steel doors. Oh wait, a Boeing 747 fully fuelled just 
> flew into your building. Everything is now a pile of rubble. Oh the 
> backups where on another server next to the one you pushed changes to.
What if you have backups, distributed all over the globe? Oh wait, a 
meteorite hits Earth and wipes out all life. Everything is now a pile of 
rubble. Oh the backups where all stored on the same planet and now they 
are gone. :)

Nikolay