Re: unlimited backup revisions?

[Martin Pool]

On 22 Mar 2001, Alberto Accomazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   -V, --version-control=WORD   override the usual version control
> 
> The backup suffix is ~, unless set with SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX.  The
> version control may be set with VERSION_CONTROL, values are:
> 
>   t, numbered     make numbered backups
>   nil, existing   numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
>   never, simple   always make simple backups

Recent GNU standards and fileutils deprecate the 'version-control'
name (because it's not really version control), and call this
parameter --backup instead. :-)

I don't think many people use the elisp-style names.

-- 
Martin Pool