[Unison-hackers] Re: [unison-users] Quick poll: Who uses backup / backups?

[Benjamin Pierce]

> > We're in the middle of some reimplementation work on the merge
> > functionality, and as part of this we're considering simplifying and
> > rationalizing the backup functionality.
> > At the moment, Unison provides two different preferences for controlling
> > backups: "backup", which keeps backup copies in the same directory as the
> > current version of the file, and "backups", which maintains a centralized
> > tree of backup files under the .unison directory.  
> 
> from my memory (and a quick look into the manual confirms it) it is exactly
> the opposite:
> backup/backupnot/backupdir control the centralised backup

You're right: what I said was exactly backwards.

Thanks,

   - Benjamin