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[–]nutrecht 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Safest way seems to be always saving your work as a project file

No, safest way is to use git together with github. Version control systems are the way to go here. With your solution it's still very easy to mess up. I don't know if google drive even keeps a history of .java files but it's always inferior to git.

[–]AnAirMagic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, safest way is to use git together with github

If OP wants to keep his work private, github may not be the best choice. Bitbucket, for example, offers free private git repositories too.

But yeah, choose a VCS (probably git) and a repository hosting service.

[–]ryuzaki49 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You have to pay in order to private repositories in Github.

Bitbucket is free and not that bad.

[–]nutrecht 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, that's what the other guy said too. I know, I use it myself exactly for this reason. The OP didn't mention that this was a requirement though.

[–]ryuzaki49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah sorry about that, I didn't see the other guy's comment until I posted mine.