From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup method Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:55:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20050127000210.GA6167@boetes.org> <200501270045.j0R0jIq06197@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106885817 14669 80.91.229.6 (28 Jan 2005 04:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 05:16:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuNYv-0001t8-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:16:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuNlJ-0001Qn-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuNkF-00013j-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:28:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuNk7-0000zU-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:28:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuNk7-0000vq-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:28:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CuNG9-0005Kn-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CuNE1-0000px-Ed; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:55:13 -0500 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Rodgers on Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:25:10 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32602 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32602 > Then of course there is the silent breaking of hard links. Which is why backup-by-copying-when-linked should be t by default. You may be thinking of cases where you want the other name to continue to refer to the latest version of the file. Those cases exist. But there are also cases where the contents of other name should remain unchanged. Backup by renaming does that job right. If you want the other name to always refer to the latest version, you could get that result with a symlink. So I think the current defaults are best. They make it possible to get both behaviors.