From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Van L <van@scratch.space>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Fossil [Was: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1]
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r47dzyzzzzzz.wj8.xxuns.g6.gal_-_@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32B00B20-58FF-4E30-9B9F-42A4467CD2CA@scratch.space> (Van L.'s message of "Fri, 5 Oct 2018 00:47:54 +1000")
On 2018-10-05 at 00:47, Van L wrote:
>> Think of backup files (I
>> generally use numeric backups to actually retain more than one old
>> copy - more clutter!) as a defense against shooting yourself in the
>> foot. A version control system does that, only better. Tools like Git
>> or Mercurial make it trivial to create and manage little repositories
>> ("git init" creates a new repo in the current directory, for example).
>> You need not push changes to a central server if you don't care to.
>
> A complete beginner might want to try fossil.
Isn’t fossil (also?) Plan9’s versioned immutable file system?
> It has builtin wiki, ticket tracking, and web-frontend.
isn’t that even more cluttered if you don’t need that but only backups?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-06 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 13:10 How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-03 13:34 ` Martin Šlouf
2018-10-03 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1669.1538575056.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:16 ` Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-04 11:04 ` tomas
2018-10-04 12:55 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-10-04 14:47 ` Van L
2018-10-06 11:34 ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
2018-10-06 14:32 ` Fossil [Was: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1] Van L
2018-10-06 19:17 ` tomas
2018-10-04 17:21 ` How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-06 6:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1701.1538657386.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-05 18:04 ` James K. Lowden
[not found] ` <mailman.1698.1538651613.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-04 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-04 14:49 ` tomas
2018-10-04 13:44 ` Tom Wallenfang
[not found] ` <mailman.1668.1538573687.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:19 ` Tom Wallenfang
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