From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:24:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wntnj0x0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1rbwccn5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400
>
> > 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.
Not a very good idea, IMO, as SRC isn't portable enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 6:24 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
2021-03-31 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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