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> 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.