From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup method Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:12:11 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20050127000210.GA6167@boetes.org> <200501270045.j0R0jIq06197@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106867953 9938 80.91.229.6 (27 Jan 2005 23:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 00:19:07 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 1CuIuo-0002v6-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:19:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuJ4i-00049c-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuJ4A-0003xh-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuJ3z-0003rY-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuJ3z-0003qS-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CuIo7-0001MV-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 49so315313wri for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:12:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=oNp0to74CK9FbH6L5O84wD9uhg2FgL5xgKXXALPx/XSryLvYhMZ9adaPwr0UDox1pAPy/YZSvbVtby6+xLKzpH0CTFU9e2TC2T2ifWcmNHW98hb1LvSTfaaAIiyMfDzq1O9dcBU4L/qc2fEgT+W7Il4nD0/YiUiruv5WHKqE+UU= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.25 with SMTP id 25mr69351wrt; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:12:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.59 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:12:11 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: 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:32598 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32598 On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:25:10 -0700, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Luc Teirlinck wrote: > > Then of course there is the silent breaking of hard links. > > Which is why backup-by-copying-when-linked should be t by default. Um, the "silent breaking of hard links" is in many case a _good thing_ -- it's quite common to use hard-link trees to "snapshot" a directories, and depend on your editor to snap the link if you change a file. It would be a nasty, nasty, shock (as in, lots of corrupted files) to those people who depend on this feature to have the default suddenly change out from under them! -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.