From: Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked?
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:03:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DCAE314.10209@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rzqel9yjzj9.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk
Dave Love wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>
>>The current default is convenient if you work on a "cp -al" copy of a
>>source tree and want to do a fast diff between the original tree and the
>>modified tree.
>>
>
> I'm sure it's more convenient in some cases, but I don't think that
> outweighs the trouble it can cause. When it's clobbered links you
> normally have no indication, and it's likely to lead to obscure
> problems. It took quite a while to discover what had happened in the
> case that prompted this.
Indeed. The very first thing I put in every Emacs installation's default.el
file is
(setq backup-by-copying-when-linked t) ; preserve hard links to original file
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-04 15:28 wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked? Dave Love
2002-11-04 16:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-06 18:58 ` Dave Love
2002-11-07 22:03 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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