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Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: wrong default for backup-by-copying-when-linked? |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:49:44 +0100 |
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Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
|> This can't be a new issue, but I don't recall discussion of it. It
|> seems to me that backup-by-copying-when-linked should default to t, as
|> I actually thought it did. I've just been bitten by breaking links to
|> some system configuration files.
|>
|> Is there a good reason for the current default of nil? If so, I think
|> it should at least be commented.
The current default is convenient if you work on a "cp -al" copy of a
source tree and want to do a fast diff between the original tree and the
modified tree.
Andreas.
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