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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:03:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ppufeu.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831rbxkmj6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:39:57 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:29:04 +0200
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> What I am looking for is making use of versioned backups, that can
>> easily be reviewed. I was wondering for the longest time why there
>> is no interface for versioned backups.
>
> We have "M-x diff-backup", is that what you want?

I do use it, but it only uses the latest numerical backup. I think the
best solution to this would be to actually implement a VC backend, but
I'll have to look into how that can be done.

-- 
	Philip K.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-30 10:03 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 [this message]
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
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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