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Re: Reviewing versioned backups


From: Philip Kaludercic
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:29:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Hey,
>
> I have been using version-control for years now, but have always
> wondered if there was a better way to review previous versions besides
> just going into your backup directory and manually comparing them. Is
> there maybe a vc backend that uses the backup information? Or has
> someone written some code to make it easier that they would care to
> share?

I sat down and wrote a sketch for a VC backend that uses version
backups. Find it attached to this message. It's not that mature yet, but
it does the basics. Would there be any interest to add this to Emacs or
as an ELPA package?

-- 
        Philip K.

Attachment: vc-backup.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp


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