GNU bug report logs - #75398
30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control

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Message #28 received at 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: esr <at> thyrsus.com, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75398: 30.0.93;
 files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:22:45 -0500

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  > > On ITS, the only place to store a version number was (1) in the second
  > > filename or (2) in the file contents.  When that text was written, was
  > > there code in Emacs to store a version number in one of those places?

  > Doesn't look like it, I only see the ".~N~" numerical extensions.

That practice for naming backup files looked partly similar to the ITS
convention of using a version number as the second filename.  But the
semantics was different.

I don't think the reference to ITS is very illuminating in the context
of GNU Emacs.

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