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[Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've pushed an interesting commit to the trunk. It recovers your XML 
file from backup by default. An example:

  * For some unspecified reason, your 'projects.xml' fails to load. 
E.g. you play with a bad written test which modifies your 
'projects.xml'. However, you don't encounter it immediately, because the 
file is loaded only on bootup.
  * The next morning you launch GTG but it doesn't start.
  * You open a terminal to manually launch GTG.
  * There is an error about XML.
  * You google that error and if you get lucky you look for backups (if 
you know where GTG stores data)
  * You try to play with backups and find the latest usable one.

As you can see, those are so many steps to solve a problem. Imagine a 
corporate worker how she turns on her computer but GTG won't start and 
she don't know what to do. Calling tech support and spend another hour 
by solving that. Instead of that, GTG takes care of those steps 
automagically. Restoring backups would mean to lose few steps what is 
better than spending few hours and losing them anyway.

If you have any objections, feel free to raise them :-)

Izidor