[darcs-devel] [issue1812] follow CVS/Emacs conventions for darcs backup files
Trent W. Buck
bugs at darcs.net
Sat Feb 25 09:28:48 UTC 2012
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> added the comment:
Archi wrote:
> Why should darcs merge-conflict backups match the naming scheme of
> other projects?
So existing tools will recognize they ARE backups, without having to
be told about Darcsisms. Note foo.~1~ is the convention for GNU
coreutils as well as Emacs. The simpler suffix ~ is also use for many
other GNU tools, e.g. tar, sed.
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