On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:53:34PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> If not, I see no problem in closing this bug. > > Okay. Because this is not something that I think should be different > in Debian than in the upstream (not as a distro specific patch) I am > going to close the bug.
No worries. > As a side note let me plug 'pdumpfs'. I only rarely want to backup > files in place and so the shell scripting to do the 'for f in > $filelist; do cp -bf $f $f; done' does not seem very difficult for > those very infrequent times when that would want to be done. FYI, --backup=numbered allows you to have "rolling" backups -- foo, foo.~1~, foo.~2~, ... it doesn't eat the oldest backups, though.
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