On 2007-01-18 08:43:56 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Anyway, I think you overestimated the reliability of Emacs's backup > system; I can see why you're surprised in this particular situation > but the current defaults are tuned for the general case and > everything is customizable. If you want the default settings > changed, you'd better ask on emacs-devel.
I've posted a message to the French newsgroup f.c.a.e to see first what users say. > A good strategy to avoid losing information is to organize your > backups yourself instead of counting on your tools to do it for you. > (Since you seem to be working with SVN, I'd recommend making local > branches with svk and commit everything in there.) However it would be easier to forget to commit to the main repository. BTW, when I know that a commit will take a long time, I usually build a patch with "svn diff", which I scp to some other machine. This time I didn't. And anyway, this is not a reason to have confusing defaults. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
