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Re: Reviewing versioned backups
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Reviewing versioned backups |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:56:48 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> 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.
Stefan
PS: I personally find the behavior of versioned backups unsatisfactory
also because of the granularity (too coarse for my taste).
I'd probably want to create new revisions quite frequently (maybe
not at every save, since I tend to do `C-x C-s` more often than
needed, but maybe at every save with some grace period between
revisions).
- Re: Reviewing versioned backups, (continued)
Re: Reviewing versioned backups, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/03/31