fylesaver

FileSaver

A small node utility which backups every change to a file so defect versions won't erase all your progress

Installation

> git clone https://github.com/TimonLukas/FileSaver.git
> npm install

Usage

To print usage details, simply execute the main script:

npm run start

To actually have the script do what it's supposed to do:

npm run start --input [INPUT] --output [OUTPUT]

Tests

To execute the tests, run

npm run test
npm run cover

I do know that not everything is thoroughly tested, especially the file handling. I did try to automate it, but somehow you simply can't listen to changes made to a file by Node itself. Sorry I guess.

Motivation

I wrote this tool since I, and many of my colleagues, have often lost files when editing them (and I am not talking about code, more graphics and the like) - especially when you save and a corrupt file is written. Also I wanted to try TDD, which I did as far as I could.

Name

The edgy name is there so I can actually publish this to npm. Sorry. :(