Re: possible new feature: unrm ?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 17:25, Michael Cheponis
<michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Yes, it's possible to move to ~/.Trash or something -- but now you need to write ever-increasingly-complicated scripts to e.g. unrm a directory tree.
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> I agree that backups are necessary, but who hasn't had a corrupted backup?  And it's much less convenient.  With disks so big these days, a 'shadow filesystem' seems most logical to me.
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> Heck, if you think about it, this is precisely what VCSs like git or subversion do -- they give you 'infinite undelete'.  I'm just saying, gee, isn't that a grand idea --- shouldn't we do that for ALL files, by default?

It is a terrible idea.

Feel free to cvs your drive but imposing this on everybody by default,
thanks but no thanks.

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Ottavio Caruso