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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:19:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme, dump, and $HOME
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>
> The idea is that the dump file is a snapshot of a particular state, and it
> made sense to me to update
> the given state, instead of putting it back in the default file despite
> being given an explicit state.
> That seemed to me a bit contrary.

also if a snapshot is wanted, then we have a tool for that: cp(1).  :-)

- erik