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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-03-21 21:35:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-03-21 21:35:24 +0200 |
| commit | afb7a23e7b914b4c3b72172ae86a5f7e63f2cfde (patch) | |
| tree | aacf28cf347d42930465fe17eeb414cb7693c6a1 /doc | |
| parent | 51848e4731f3e32e5d152990bf570b08ca544a92 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-afb7a23e7b914b4c3b72172ae86a5f7e63f2cfde.tar.gz | |
; Improve documentation of 'backup-by-copying'
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Backup Copying): Recommend
'backup-by-copying' for files on file-hosting services. (Bug#69930)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 971483a6e4c..d074a55b762 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -779,6 +779,12 @@ operations typically break hard links, disconnecting the file name you visited from any alternate names for the same file. This has nothing to do with Emacs---the version control system does it. + Some file storage services support @dfn{file versioning}: they +record history of previous versions of files, and allow reverting to +those previous versions. If you want to be able to do that with files +hosted by those services when editing them with Emacs, customize +@code{backup-by-copying} to a non-@code{nil} value. + @node Customize Save @subsection Customizing Saving of Files |