From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked?
Date: 06 Nov 2002 18:58:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqel9yjzj9.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jeheexqnyv.fsf@sykes.suse.de
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> 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.
I'm sure it's more convenient in some cases, but I don't think that
outweighs the trouble it can cause. When it's clobbered links you
normally have no indication, and it's likely to lead to obscure
problems. It took quite a while to discover what had happened in the
case that prompted this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-06 18:58 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
2002-11-06 18:58 ` Dave Love [this message]
2002-11-07 22:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
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