Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Jeremy Baxter <jeremy@baxters.nz>,
>   james.ipswich@proton.me,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:46:18 -0800
> 
> Something I have wondered about for a while is why the kept-old-versions 
> default is 2 instead of 1. It makes sense of course that you would want to 
> keep, e.g., the original (template) version of a config file, but what is 
> special about the first revision you made to it?

If you start from an empty file, the first version is frequently not
useful.