From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:46 +0200 Message-ID: <85mynnsg0t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208770942 1940 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 09:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 11:42:54 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnsXu-0001Pr-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:42:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnsX3-0005VF-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnsVb-00056d-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnsVV-00055D-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnsVV-000558-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.47]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnsVU-0006nu-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.32]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4547424AEF7 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) by mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F153724A83 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-038-079.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.38.79]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067B5944A7 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 245311C39587; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (Torsten Bronger's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6861/Mon Apr 21 09:50:29 2008 on mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95616 Archived-At: Torsten Bronger writes: > Emacs does not create backup files for files covered by version > control. I find this default unfortunate I don't. What version control system necessitates keeping backups around? > and request to change it because the VCS only stores the last commit. What version control system would that be? > Especially with DVCS'es becoming increasingly popular with a lot of > branching and merging, these backup files can become very valuable. > (Well, yesterday they would have for me. ;-) Again, which version control are you talking about? > Additionally, DVCS'es don't store last-commit files in the local > directory (in contrast to SVN or CVS) so that cluppering up is not an > issue either. I don't get your point here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum