2013/9/22 Eluze <[email protected]> > it would nice to have a backup in convert-ly which deserves the name. > > actually convert-ly does backup the file being converted - but always to > the > same file (filename.~ly), and so the original gets quickly lost if you > press > the convert button twice. > > probably most of us never thought about this situation because we use control version for important files.. but I think that it's a valid point
addes as issue 3572: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3572 > I fancy a simple rule for this: add an increasing number to the backup > file. > this way you can check if a file already exists, if yes-> increase the > number, if no -> backup using this last number. > > running convert-ly more than once on the same file would then result in > > myFile.~ly.1 > myFile.~ly.2 > myFile.~ly.3 > … > > in Linux it's myFile.ly~ (where the trailing ~ makes it invisible to the file manager) so a better name would be myFile-1.ly~ myFile-2.ly~ etc. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
