Backup Old Assets at start of new rebuild

[Louis-Backstrom]

A random thought I was having today - I think it would be good if, at the start of each new make assets rebuild the system backed up the current set of assets to a .zip folder or similar, so that one can easily compare the two versions and ensure that the desired outcome has been reached.

This is especially useful when rebuilding assets after a data update, to ensure that it has actually gone through, or after a functional change to the code (e.g. changing the surveyor sheet formatting).

I think you could probably also put it in a folder with .gitignore (?) such that it is only kept locally on the user's computer and doesn't take up unnecessary space on the repo?

Something like:

make assets

compress current \assets folder into a new assets-backup.zip folder which gets placed in old\assets-backup

delete current assets folder

continue on as per current code

Does that make sense / sound possible?

[jeffreyhanson]

Great idea - done!

[Louis-Backstrom]

Awesome! Thanks @jeffreyhanson