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Numbered Backups (version control)

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From: Ori Degani
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:35
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Hi, 
  I'm using the version-control on emacs (actually epoch
4.0p2).  I was wondering if it even works right?  I usually
save quite often (about every 5 minutes), but I don't get as
many numbered backup files ($FILE.~n~).  my kept-old-versions
and kept-new-versions are set to 50, and version-control is t.
Recently I looked to see if at least the last backup is the
correct and saw that it is not.  (I have file.~1~ thru
file.~16~, and of course "file", but file.~16~ is a pretty old
version (I saved a lot before that version)).
	 So I tried to edit a file just to see if the backup
version thing works.  I changed just one character, and saved,
did that 13 (lucky number) times.  What i got was just the
original saved file, and the newest file.  (file.c and
file.c.~1~).

	I hope you understood why I explained...
If you did, and know what the problem is, and how to solve it,
please reply by mail, because this is the only way I do
backups.

	If not, and there is some other way to do backups
(thru emacs), please do tell.

Thanks,
Ori
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From: ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani)
Subject: Numbered Backups (version control)
Organization: Heart of Gold Institute
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:35:18 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Dec25.103518.16118@discus.technion.ac.il>
Summary: Problem with version-control, doesn't do backups right 
Keywords: version-control backup help
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