From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:10:13 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86jzf889sa.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87a5g84hn4.fsf@baxters.nz> <86msk7dcuk.fsf@gnu.org> <87frpwprdh.fsf@librehacker.com> <86bk0k9pz9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13923"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/31.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Christopher Howard , petterih@iki.fi, jeremy@baxters.nz, james.ipswich@proton.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 19 08:17:21 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1srATh-0003Xw-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:17:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srASq-0000ec-EC; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srASo-0000ZC-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::221]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srASm-0001Sd-D2; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 192ED240004; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:16:17 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <86bk0k9pz9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:23:06 +0300") X-GND-Sasl: juri@linkov.net Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::221; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay1-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323751 Archived-At: >> Something I have wondered about for a while is why the kept-old-versions >> default is 2 instead of 1. It makes sense of course that you would want >> to keep, e.g., the original (template) version of a config file, but what >> is special about the first revision you made to it? > > If you start from an empty file, the first version is frequently not > useful. Is it possible not to create a backup for a new empty file? Because empty backups are useless.