I'm wondering if zip's `setComment` might be useful here.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 1:44 PM Christian Grün <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Currently, it’s not possible to attach comments to backups. I’ll have > some more thoughts on your feature request. Maybe we could add an info > file in the zipped archive and partially unzip it when listing > available backups. > > All the best, > Christian > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:26 AM Jonathan Robie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have been making backups before doing particularly complex things to my > > treebanks, and I find myself writing down information about what stage of > > processing a given backup corresponds to. > > > > "after replacing subtrees for missing compounds" > > > > I wish I could associate these strings with backups in BaseX so I can more > > easily know which one I would restore if something went wrong. > > > > Jonathan

