Re: [Jed-users-l] extended backup (versioning)?

[Thei Wijnen <t.wijnen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ulli,

Excuse me in saying so, but you are wrong about the VMS numbering scheme.
In VMS the newest file gets the highest version number and that really 
makes sense.
It also avoids having to renumber all files whenever a new one is created...
So "backup.sl" is really close to what VMS was doing.

Thei.

On 3-4-2013 18:47, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> JED's backup files~ saved me often :-)
>
> Being an old VMS hacker, I really like it's integrated versioning. Example:
>
> file.txt;1
> file.txt;2
> file.txt;3
>
> (the bigger the number, the older the file)
>
> How about extending JED's backup file concept to a similar versioning
> system for UNIX? I think of this kind of naming:
>
> file.txt
> file.txt~1
> file.txt~2
> file.txt~3
>
> When one saves a new file.txt then JED should rename the old files:
>
> file.txt~3 --> file.txt~4
> file.txt~2 --> file.txt~3
> file.txt~1 --> file.txt~2
> file.txt   --> file.txt~1
>
>
> A JED config variable would define the maximum number of backup versions.
>
>

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