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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	 dgutov@yandex.ru,  john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-find-revision-no-save?
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:26:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgdfyo8j.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmebvv7k.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:24:15 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Okt 29 2022, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>
>> Natural out of habit or natural out of necessity?  I remember being
>> surprised that after inspecting a few old versions of a file that my
>> directory was littered with the these files.
>
> They are like numbered backups.

Fair enough, but a popular configuration is

     (setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.local/share/backup")))

that avoids littering the working directory with backup files.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-24  0:27 vc-find-revision-no-save? John Yates
2022-10-24  9:42 ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-24 16:02   ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 17:14     ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-24 21:10     ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Stefan Monnier
2022-10-25  2:22       ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-28 21:57       ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Richard Stallman
2022-10-29  6:46         ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-29  7:07           ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Stefan Kangas
2022-10-29  9:18             ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-29  9:24           ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Andreas Schwab
2022-10-29  9:26             ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-10-29 15:14           ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Stefan Monnier
2022-10-29 15:40             ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 19:37 ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Juri Linkov
2022-10-24 20:00   ` vc-find-revision-no-save? John Yates
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-31 11:57 vc-find-revision-no-save? John Yates
2023-02-10 23:46 ` vc-find-revision-no-save? Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-27 19:38   ` vc-find-revision-no-save? John Yates
2023-03-27 20:50   ` vc-find-revision-no-save? John Yates

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