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What Happened to My Project in the Last 4 Hours? (A Dev Tool Story)

DEV Community: productivity·HUAICHUAN·4 months ago
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Picture this: you have been coding for four hours straight. Three AI tools are open. Your terminal is running scripts. Your editor has unsaved changes. You step away for coffee. When you come back, something is broken. A file has different content than you expected. Another file is missing entirely. What happened? You have no idea. Git shows nothing useful — you haven't committed in hours Your editor's undo history is long gone The AI tools have no memory of what they changed This is the reality of modern development. Multiple tools touch your files. Things change fast. And when something goes wrong, you are left reconstructing history from nothing. CodeFootprint CodeFootprint is a Mac app that gives you that history automatically. Select a folder.…

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