From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:49:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeheexqnyv.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqr8e1xsks.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "04 Nov 2002 15:28:19 +0000")
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
|> This can't be a new issue, but I don't recall discussion of it. It
|> seems to me that backup-by-copying-when-linked should default to t, as
|> I actually thought it did. I've just been bitten by breaking links to
|> some system configuration files.
|>
|> Is there a good reason for the current default of nil? If so, I think
|> it should at least be commented.
The current default is convenient if you work on a "cp -al" copy of a
source tree and want to do a fast diff between the original tree and the
modified tree.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-04 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-04 15:28 wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked? Dave Love
2002-11-04 16:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-11-06 18:58 ` Dave Love
2002-11-07 22:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
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