From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:35:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; Improve documentation of 'backup-by-copying' X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7270292dfbc6f61e0dd78691d066aeb76df1fe7;p=emacs.git ; Improve documentation of 'backup-by-copying' * doc/emacs/files.texi (Backup Copying): Recommend 'backup-by-copying' for files on file-hosting services. (Bug#69930) (cherry picked from commit afb7a23e7b914b4c3b72172ae86a5f7e63f2cfde) --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 86dbf50acb0..d98b1936fe4 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -777,6 +777,12 @@ operations typically break hard links, disconnecting the file name you visited from any alternate names for the same file. This has nothing to do with Emacs---the version control system does it. + Some file storage services support @dfn{file versioning}: they +record history of previous versions of files, and allow reverting to +those previous versions. If you want to be able to do that with files +hosted by those services when editing them with Emacs, customize +@code{backup-by-copying} to a non-@code{nil} value. + @node Customize Save @subsection Customizing Saving of Files