From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked? Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:49:44 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036429841 25491 80.91.224.249 (4 Nov 2002 17:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188kgP-0006Gy-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:06:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188kgM-0000oe-00; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:06:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188kQF-0004Ba-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188kQ9-0004Aq-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:49:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188kQ8-0004AN-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17DD146B1; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:49:47 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: Dave Love X-Yow: .. my NOSE is NUMB! In-Reply-To: (Dave Love's message of "04 Nov 2002 15:28:19 +0000") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3814 Dave Love 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."