From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked? Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:03:00 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DCAE314.10209@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036708513 21377 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 22:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189vF0-0005YO-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:35:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189v8F-0000Xd-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189usK-0004Ly-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189usH-0004KZ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189usG-0004KR-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189uqi-0003qT-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:10:04 +0100 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189uiD-0003Gc-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:01:17 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036706476 11726 170.207.51.80 (7 Nov 2002 22:01:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:01:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3844 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3844 Dave Love wrote: > Andreas Schwab 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 -- Kevin Rodgers