Handling of backup files - two new features proposed

Michael Zimmermann zim at vegaa.de
Fri Apr 26 09:22:03 EST 2002


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At Friday 26 April 2002 16:02 Dave Dykstra wrote:
> Why go through the trouble to nullify the --suffix option when --backup-dir
> is specified?  I think it would be better to allow them to come in either
> order anyway.

The -suffix is initialized to "~". This was just my primitive way to avoid
code changes.

The other way around, an additional boolean like 'suffix_specified' might
come handy.

Michael
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