numbered backups & version-control

numbered backups & version-control

[Massimo Campostrini]

I am a big fan of numbered backups (i.e. setting `version-control' to
`t').  I find it very useful for files I am editing.  

But it is really too much for files generated automatically, such as
`.newsrc.eld' and `.newsrc'.  rmail mode solves this by never making
numbered backups of mail files (by making `version-control' local to
the buffer and setting it to `never').

I would like a similar behavior from gnus (maybe as an option,
although I can't see anybody needing six old versions of `.newsrc.eld'
backed up).

It should be very easy to implement, probably I can implement it
myself :-)

Comments?

numbered backups & version-control

[Luis Fernandes]

I second this; the crash file provides a big enough safety net that
even a single numbered back-up is superfluous.

Re: numbered backups & version-control

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini) writes:

> But it is really too much for files generated automatically, such as
> `.newsrc.eld' and `.newsrc'.  rmail mode solves this by never making
> numbered backups of mail files (by making `version-control' local to
> the buffer and setting it to `never').
> 
> I would like a similar behavior from gnus (maybe as an option,
> although I can't see anybody needing six old versions of `.newsrc.eld'
> backed up).

Yup.  I've done this in September 0.13.

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