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27.0.50; command for restoring backups

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Message #21 received at 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, charles <at> aurox.ch
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:03:35 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200
> Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
> 
> > 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.

Doesn't revert-buffer already provide this capability?

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