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Re: backup files for files under VC


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs does not create backup files for files covered by version
> control.  I find this default unfortunate

I don't.  What version control system necessitates keeping backups
around?

> and request to change it because the VCS only stores the last commit.

What version control system would that be?

> Especially with DVCS'es becoming increasingly popular with a lot of
> branching and merging, these backup files can become very valuable.
> (Well, yesterday they would have for me.  ;-)

Again, which version control are you talking about?

> Additionally, DVCS'es don't store last-commit files in the local
> directory (in contrast to SVN or CVS) so that cluppering up is not an
> issue either.

I don't get your point here.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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