From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torsten Bronger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:49 +0200 Organization: Phoenix Foundation Message-ID: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208764755 12089 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 07:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:59:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 09:59:50 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 1JnqwD-0000Yt-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:59:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnqvY-0005nw-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnqup-0005Wc-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnqul-0005V7-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnqul-0005V4-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnquk-0003sa-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnquj-0004RK-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnque-0005qU-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:58:08 +0000 Original-Received: from xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de ([87.78.134.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:58:08 +0000 Original-Received: from bronger by xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:58:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de X-PGP-Fingerprint: C5C8 D6E2 79D2 EFE9 8C0F 6D77 D5E3 CEFC 9F51 6B77 X-PGP-Affinity: will accept encrypted message for GPG X-Home-Page: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bronger X-Face: +wpw"|jN2Fde|7_lKBa0\7!_6suIE_m! x)'S9ytBu8tkt'k779jbzQ4o|p+@H_DCrIdnKG]E*w X-Binford: 6100 (more power) X-Accept-Language: de, en Jabber-ID: bronger@jabber.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:khSDp783HXINST/GmGVUtx+3PG8= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95607 Archived-At: 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. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: bronger@jabber.org (See http://ime.webhop.org for further contact info.)