Hello,
In the Glyphs Handbook, it says " Versions […] allows browsing previous versions of the file." in the User Settings chapter. Where do I find these file versions or how can I access them?
Is this similar to FontLab’s “Save renamed files in subfolder” where every time I save the file, it saves a new copy of it? Because that was what I was looking for, considering that just today I saved a file without realising I had messed it up, setting me back a couple of hours…
Glyphs > Preferences > User Settings – You must have Use Versions checked.
I didn’t have it enabled, but now I do. But I’ve saved a file a few times after some changes, just to test it, and I don’t know how to access the older versions… I’m not sure I’m explaining myself correctly. Where do I find the different files’ versions? Imagining I made a mistake, how can I revert it to a previous version? With FL, one goes to the file folder, search for the [font_name].backup sub-folder, and open a previous file.
Go to File → Revert and you can view and restore data from past versions.
As someone doing versioning manually, I’m curious — how do you navigate among the tons of versions created that way?
Well, I’m relatively new to this, but what I do is, when there is a problem like the one I had today, I just go back a few versions (this happens rarely, so…). Every now and then, I navigate to the sub-folder, select some really old files, and just delete them. It doesn’t take much…
Thank you!
You might want to look into a proper version control system like Git, which only stores the differences to the previous file each time a version is created. That takes up significantly less storage space, so you don’t have to delete old records.
I have a Glyphs plugin in the works that lets you create, browse, and compare file versions and is using Git under the hood. It’s not quite ready just yet as some features/documentation are missing, but if you want to try the beta version, you can follow the Getting Started section.
Cool! Thank you.