EnTerr wrote:How do you manage such things with auto-backups? Or is it so rarely you find yourself needing things like above that it's not worth the botheration?
For client code, I do exactly what you've described. Generate my changelog and verify deltas during the diffs at check-in.
For my personal code, I definitely should, but I generally don't. I've tried it on several occasions. I even have my own SVN server set up "in the cloud", but I never remember to check stuff into it, so having automatic backups is the next best thing. FWIW, my makefile also appends a timestamp to the end of every zip and/or pkg file it generates, so until/unless I manually clean up my builds folder for each project, I also have a copy of every single build I make of a channel.
I really never even considered using it at home. I suppose now that my projects are starting to get stupidly complicated it might not be a bad idea, ...but knowing me I'm pretty much certain that I'd spend a lot of time getting everything set up and then never use it anyway.
Love Linux. Despise windows 8 so bad, if I need windows I stick with 7. Also I want to steal your MinGW , never heard of it before but what you say you can do with it sounds VERY cool. 
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