From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rbwccn5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87v998jjl3.fsf@web.de
> 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.
Stefan
PS: I personally find the behavior of versioned backups unsatisfactory
also because of the granularity (too coarse for my taste).
I'd probably want to create new revisions quite frequently (maybe
not at every save, since I tend to do `C-x C-s` more often than
needed, but maybe at every save with some grace period between
revisions).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 1:56 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 [this message]
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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