Subject: bug#47353: Numbered backups also need kept-new-versions else will grow out of control

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:52:49 +0800

>>>>> "CE" == Chris Elvidge <[email-masked]> writes:

CE> So 'use common sense to limit disk space used' has to be stated in the
CE> manual?

Hmmm, yes.
And also mention in the manual that e.g., emacs has methods to trim
these automatically, but coreutils hasn't implemented them yet.

Else users will write elaborate programs to do it, thinking that nobody
thought about it yet.