.OLD suffix

Ivan Shmakov oneingray at gmail.com
Fri May 23 18:53:33 UTC 2008


>>>>> Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

 >>> BTW, why not make the backup suffix configurable, with an option to
 >>> omit making backups at all?  Like:

	JFTR: the text above should have been present at the top of the
	original message.

 > It works with your patch:

[...]

	Thanks for testing this one.

 > However, I believe you would have wanted something like "make update
 > nobackup" or "make --nobackup update".  However, make does not
 > support such constructions.

	It seems to be good enough in its present state.

 > Do you have a better idea?

	A `configure' option to specify the suffix used by default?
	Though it hardly worths the effort.



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