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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:24:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wntnj0x0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1rbwccn5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400
> 
> > I once tried to live with versioned backups myself but I gave up because
> > it used too much space.  My .gnu-emacs is nearly 1 MByte, a thousand
> > saves are reached quickly, and you want to keep versions for a long
> > time.  After having used up several GBytes in a suprising short period
> > of time I chose a different approach.  IMO handling this with a VCS is
> > the better approach.
> 
> Agreed.  I suspect it would make sense to offer something akin to
> Magit's `wip` using SRC.

Not a very good idea, IMO, as SRC isn't portable enough.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-22 19:21 Reviewing versioned backups Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-22 20:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23  8:38   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-23  9:31     ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23  9:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-23 10:19         ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23 11:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-23 15:49             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-23  9:56       ` Thibaut Verron
2021-03-23 11:55   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-23 12:36     ` John Yates
2021-03-23 12:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-24  8:47       ` Jean Louis
2021-03-24 11:05         ` Jean Louis
2021-03-24 16:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26  5:50 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-03-28  0:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-28  9:23   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30  0:36     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-30  9:29       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30  9:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-30 10:03           ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30 10:16         ` Jean Louis
2021-03-30 23:41         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-31  1:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-31  6:24             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-31 13:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-31 14:00   ` Jean Louis
2021-04-01 15:52   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-01 19:44     ` Philip Kaludercic

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