I know this is not a new topic but I though I would chime in on another way (tested and works) to associate a schematic with a copy of a saved PCB such as would be the case if you were branching a PCB layout scheme and might want to back track with out losing work to the point of the branch. You can simply rename files. Specifically, the pcb files ending with .kicad_pcb, .kicad_pro. You could even setup a batch file to swap things. I did not do this while the files were open, Opening after the swap does not look like anything is broken and now cross probing works with my branched PCB. This would b=obviously get very dicey if there were back annotations to the schematic and then swapped back to a previous board. Not sure of all of the ramifications.
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What if you have the same names but in different folders? The folders could be zipped individually into different zip files. I am not saying this is better, but it sounds like another option.
That’s my normal modus operandi too. No need to lumber filenames with some long version suffix.
I just copy/paste the project folder many times as I work (extended naming of the copied folder is automatic). It has saved me on more than one occasion.
Plus, kicad creates automatic backups as zips.
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