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27.0.50; command for restoring backups

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Message #11 received at 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:
>
> > There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> > recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file.  We should
> > add one.  It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> > the menu-bar.
>
> Hm...  Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> there's only one auto-save file...  and, also, recovering an auto-save
> file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> in a version control system.
>
> So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> any of the standard ways of looking at files.
>
> Any opinions?

Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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