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Re: [O] For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings?
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Rainer M Krug |
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Re: [O] For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings? |
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Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:39:33 +0100 |
Envoyé de mon iPhone
> Le 28 déc. 2015 à 13:47, Jorge <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Hi. My ~/org folder, with its sub directories, has a total of 13 .org
> files. Five of them are agenda files. I set up numbered backup, with
> the backups going to a separate directory: ~/auto-backups. For the
> most important org files, I raised the number of numbered backups
> kept. For example, my biggest org file has the following local
> variables:
> - Local variables:
> - auto-save-interval: 150
> - version-control: t
> - kept-new-versions: 80
> - End:
>
> I sincronize both ~/org and ~/auto-backups to a cloud syncing service.
> ~/auto-backups now is 97MiB, about 2% of my 5.5GiB cloud quota.
>
> Do you recommend keeping my current setup? Or should I adopt some
> version control system to have better history (right now I save only
> the latest 80 versions, and Emacs saves a new backup only on the Emacs
> session's first save)?
>
I would look into hit for version control. This would give you more control and
no limit for the number of versions.