Re: clean numbered backups with convert-ly

[Eluze]

David Kastrup wrote
> Eluze <

> eluzew@

> > writes:
> 
>> David Kastrup wrote
> 
> And then I would be afraid that it would do something besides cleaning
> up the backups, some conversion or so.  When using rm *.ly.~* I know
> exactly what will happen.

and this would remove files marked .~25~toBeKept

> [...]
> With regard to the
> documentation: that would make sense.  I did not object to that, merely
> explained why nobody might have thought of mentioning it before.  I'd
> have said that one should not just restrict this to convert-ly, but at
> least lilypond and lilypond-book have so few parameterless options that
> it seems hardly worth the trouble to mention that possibility with them.

maybe just adding an example with recommended parameters would help make
convert-ly more popular?

convert-ly -ec myFile.ly     updates myFile.ly to the current version and
makes a simple backup in the file myFile.ly~
or 
convert-ly -ecb myFile.ly   updates myFile.ly to the current version and
makes a numbered backup myFile.ly~number~


btw - why is -c - now the default - not mentioned in the doc? it is when the
help text is displayed:


-c, --current-version
                     force updating \version number to 2.17.29

shall I rise a documentation request for these two little items? 
Eluze



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