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What's the most creative or unconventional use of Git you've encountered? (programming.dev)
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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use it to backup my save games. Not sure if that's conventional.

For example, I'd MKLink %appdata%/Local/Pal/Save/ to a folder in my save repo, and commit that every once in a while.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fun story, in 2012 I got the idea of making a git based "cloud" save system with branching, to explore multiple story paths in games.

I implemented the FileSystemWatcher (the equivalent to Linux's inotify) component in C# on Windows, was able to detect when games were saved, and commit that to git, and stopped there.

Feel free to implement that, I'd love to save on implementation time 😇