Because I formed these habits in the nineties and 00’s, well before git was a thing; and because nothing I write matters, other than possibly to my employers, in which case I do use (primarily) git … Or other version control. (Believe it or not, I’ve used subversion.)
Most of the documents to which I apply this are things like my resume and DNS server. No one but me will ever care.
Also, I like you both for asking this question and for how you put it.
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hmmm is the most recent version of this file the one named “newest” or “new (actual)”?
Final Final Final(Real)
I used to have this problem, but now I go with one of two solutions:
You know how to script and what a symlink is; why aren’t you using git or any other kind of version control instead?
Because I formed these habits in the nineties and 00’s, well before git was a thing; and because nothing I write matters, other than possibly to my employers, in which case I do use (primarily) git … Or other version control. (Believe it or not, I’ve used subversion.)
Most of the documents to which I apply this are things like my resume and DNS server. No one but me will ever care.
Also, I like you both for asking this question and for how you put it.
spends ten minutes figuring out which one’s the latest
has to save it again
“new (actual)(for real)”