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Re: Reviewing versioned backups
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Reviewing versioned backups |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:24:27 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400
>
> > I once tried to live with versioned backups myself but I gave up because
> > it used too much space. My .gnu-emacs is nearly 1 MByte, a thousand
> > saves are reached quickly, and you want to keep versions for a long
> > time. After having used up several GBytes in a suprising short period
> > of time I chose a different approach. IMO handling this with a VCS is
> > the better approach.
>
> Agreed. I suspect it would make sense to offer something akin to
> Magit's `wip` using SRC.
Not a very good idea, IMO, as SRC isn't portable enough.
- Re: Reviewing versioned backups, (continued)
Re: Reviewing versioned backups, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/03/31