The script turned out to be pretty short, and is included at the end of this blog post in all its perlesque glory. The rest of the night was spent tweaking and testing the command template constants, destroying and re-creating Git archives until I had myself convinced that the script was automatically committing exact replicas of the save-game directory, regardless of additions, deletions and modifications. Recent reading around Git has convinced me that Git stores deltas of its binary file commits, so my last objection to using Git over Subversion for binary files has just been laid to rest.Īlso, the original Perl script was a bit brain-dead in that it was good at automatically committing save files that had changed, but additions and deletions were still things I’d have to manually tell the repository about.Īs these things tend to go, the lion’s share of the script was written in maybe the first 15 minutes.

The kids left me alone last night, so I decided I’d goof around with my Torchlight 2 character archiving.

Torchlight 2 save location