[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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