For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings?

For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings?

[Jorge]

Hi.  My ~/org folder, with its sub directories, has a total of 13 .org
files.  Five of them are agenda files.  I set up numbered backup, with
the backups going to a separate directory: ~/auto-backups.  For the
most important org files, I raised the number of numbered backups
kept.  For example, my biggest org file has the following local
variables:
  - Local variables:
  - auto-save-interval: 150
  - version-control: t
  - kept-new-versions: 80
  - End:

I sincronize both ~/org and ~/auto-backups to a cloud syncing service.
~/auto-backups now is 97MiB, about 2% of my 5.5GiB cloud quota.

Do you recommend keeping my current setup?  Or should I adopt some
version control system to have better history (right now I save only
the latest 80 versions, and Emacs saves a new backup only on the Emacs
session's first save)?

Re: For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings?

[Rainer M Krug]

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> Le 28 déc. 2015 à 13:47, Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi.  My ~/org folder, with its sub directories, has a total of 13 .org
> files.  Five of them are agenda files.  I set up numbered backup, with
> the backups going to a separate directory: ~/auto-backups.  For the
> most important org files, I raised the number of numbered backups
> kept.  For example, my biggest org file has the following local
> variables:
>  - Local variables:
>  - auto-save-interval: 150
>  - version-control: t
>  - kept-new-versions: 80
>  - End:
> 
> I sincronize both ~/org and ~/auto-backups to a cloud syncing service.
> ~/auto-backups now is 97MiB, about 2% of my 5.5GiB cloud quota.
> 
> Do you recommend keeping my current setup?  Or should I adopt some
> version control system to have better history (right now I save only
> the latest 80 versions, and Emacs saves a new backup only on the Emacs
> session's first save)?
> 

I would look into hit for version control. This would give you more control and no limit for the number of versions.