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From: Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: backup files for files under VC
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)

Hallöchen!

Emacs does not create backup files for files covered by version
control.  I find this default unfortunate and request to change it
because the VCS only stores the last commit.

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.  ;-)

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.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  7:57 Torsten Bronger [this message]
2008-04-21  8:30 ` backup files for files under VC Nick Roberts
2008-04-21  9:39 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 11:14   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 11:58     ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 12:18       ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 12:35         ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 12:50           ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 13:09             ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 13:18               ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 13:39                 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 14:01                   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 17:20                   ` Messy VC checkouts (was: backup files for files under VC) Phil Hagelberg
2008-04-21 18:00                     ` Messy VC checkouts Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 18:18                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-21 19:48               ` backup files for files under VC Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 14:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 15:47               ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 16:27                 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-21 16:35                   ` Torsten Bronger
2008-04-21 14:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 15:20         ` David Kastrup

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