From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:29:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1jxuh0f.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87a6qvat9v.fsf@posteo.net> <87y2e8t8nh.fsf@web.de> <87h7kvocmf.fsf@posteo.net> <87r1jx32bi.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6941"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 11:29:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lRAgq-0001ih-8D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36758 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRAgp-0003ce-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 05:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRAgV-0003cM-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 05:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:56527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRAgO-00014w-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 05:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77906160062 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:29:05 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1617096545; bh=xQ2fubRQbij240knkkwkt6qcUB9bHgxbXnQPraxj9aY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=ZpkyIth8Vooq6egMEEPsiILCB3kTxy8SdAMauUmh2enHaCdKnYvps8n6/GQEvU4C7 r6DDIUiDEy9O3zOITX/ly1HJjXHByLRhwClGABDSWnbb9G7F24R23IU6O+BQ78Oo6V dBX/8W1wAipyjb5bJ4LWWMeQpHa7Wf2xVqZUbDT2om/FssKbjis1ShkYALkznWqhSW wnZqnYCrui9BiRZo2SCTVrgp3bJnHsR4RH6w27D8j/928KCqIVaqnq2U4u8VQSX5QF pUZ2JazUyzOi/6zO03jgg9nsYFPDoCH4snjBFEYpvJEthV7IFe9UQavmp2b53fwu5h 4CWdKHdAQ+4gA== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4F8kfS6CVWz9rxN; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:29:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87r1jx32bi.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:36:17 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128752 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Philip Kaludercic writes: > >> This is interesting, but doesn't ~git~ fit my use-case, as I don't >> always use Git as my VCS and I use a lot of unversioned files. > > You could still use Git/Magit it but it would need some setup. You > could, for example, instruct `backup-directory-alist' to assign backups > a special directory, make it a Git repository, and instruct Emacs to > commit each new backup automatically. But this wouldn't give me a direct overview of all backup versions, it would just version the backups. What I am looking for is making use of versioned backups, that can easily be reviewed. I was wondering for the longest time why there is no interface for versioned backups. > I guess you might be able to use VC instead of Magit and your VCS > instead of Git to get something similar. > > Michael. -- Philip K.