Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dave Love wrote:

> 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.

Indeed.  The very first thing I put in every Emacs installation's default.el
file is

(setq backup-by-copying-when-linked t)  ; preserve hard links to original file

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