From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:16:43 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87a6qvat9v.fsf@posteo.net> <87y2e8t8nh.fsf@web.de> <87h7kvocmf.fsf@posteo.net> <87r1jx32bi.fsf@web.de> <87r1jxuh0f.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7021"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 12:22:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lRBVt-0001j4-AN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:22:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52686 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRBVs-0000rB-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRBVB-0000pZ-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:57811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRBV8-0006pq-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.58]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E079.000000006062FBAB.0000670A; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:21:31 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Philip Kaludercic , Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r1jxuh0f.fsf@posteo.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128758 Archived-At: * Philip Kaludercic [2021-03-30 12:29]: > Michael Heerdegen writes: > > > Philip Kaludercic writes: > > > >> This is interesting, but doesn't ~git~ fit my use-case, as I don't > >> always use Git as my VCS and I use a lot of unversioned files. > > > > You could still use Git/Magit it but it would need some setup. You > > could, for example, instruct `backup-directory-alist' to assign backups > > a special directory, make it a Git repository, and instruct Emacs to > > commit each new backup automatically. > > But this wouldn't give me a direct overview of all backup versions, it > would just version the backups. 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. Since you mentioned it, I had similar problem, but already had database based backup system for database entries. Now I have extended it that I can backup files, buffers and database entries in a single database table. It is work in progress, not yet ready for public due to few other files missing. But it can be done when I have time. Emacs: RCD Version Control system with PostgreSQL backend https://hyperscope.link/3/6/7/9/6/Emacs-RCD-Version-Control-system-with-PostgreSQL-backend-36796.html -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns