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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>,
	 petterih@iki.fi, jeremy@baxters.nz,  james.ipswich@proton.me,
	 emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:10:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86jzf889sa.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bk0k9pz9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:23:06 +0300")

>> Something I have wondered about for a while is why the kept-old-versions
>> default is 2 instead of 1. It makes sense of course that you would want
>> to keep, e.g., the original (template) version of a config file, but what
>> is special about the first revision you made to it?
>
> If you start from an empty file, the first version is frequently not
> useful.

Is it possible not to create a backup for a new empty file?
Because empty backups are useless.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-19  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-15 22:19 Reconsider make-backup-files default value James Ipswich
2024-09-15 23:29 ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 20:14     ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-09-18 21:46       ` Christopher Howard
2024-09-19  5:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  6:10           ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2024-09-19  6:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-15 23:40 ` pinmacs
2024-09-16 12:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-16  0:03 ` James Ipswich
2024-09-16  0:14   ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 13:24   ` Po Lu
2024-09-18 13:37     ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-18 23:31     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-19  2:41       ` Po Lu
2024-09-19  5:23       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-09-20  8:23         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-09-19  5:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18  3:51 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-09-16  0:15 Martin Edström

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