On May 10, 2007, at 1:42 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:

Isn't the point of svn is not needing those files? You can always get them back, even if they were deleted. You can also copy in svn from older revisions to get those files.

svn cp -r 1234 path1 path2

So I don't really see the point of separate files. If we weren't using svn and no version control, then yes, bak files are necessary.

Doing that requires more work, as you have to go back and find where it came from. There's no cost involved in keeping the .bak files aside from a few more kB downloaded, which is practically nothing.