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#8159
file-name-sans-version fails for some git files
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Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:32:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #23 received at 8159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 3 March 2011 13:57, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Anyway, your change is not limited to this particular situation, it is
> more general. It will affect any file of that form, anywhere.
Sure. What I am trying to understand is why this change should be any
more of a problem than the currently-accepted suffixes for VC systems.
You said earlier:
> If you are okay with having foo.js~ as a simple backup file name of
> foo.js.~HEAD~1~ and foo.js.~3~ as its numbered backup,
> then I see no issues here
Indeed, I don't have a problem with this; I was just trying to point
out that because of the way these suffixes normally arise, they rarely
have backups.
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