commit e48a03460b491db7abfc80cefb41944c34abe073
Author: Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Mar 26 22:32:53 2016 -0400
RELEASE-NOTES: document creation of backup file
We now create a backup file when overwriting a file with a new file
format. See #9554 and cc83dfa8. This is now documented in
RELEASE-NOTES.
Thanks to Livu.
diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index 3812ff8..1f5a2be 100644
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -154,3 +154,13 @@
package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select
"Always babel" instead. This may be needed if a document uses code that
is specific to babel.
+
+* As usual, when opening and saving a document that was created by a previous
+ major version of LyX (in this case 2.1.x), the file format is changed to
+ the new file format (in this case 2.2.x). What is different starting with
+ 2.2.0 is that when we save a file that was not originally in the current LyX
+ format, we create a backup of the original file. We put it in the backup
+ directory, if one exists, otherwise in the directory the original file is
+ in. This is the same strategy as for normal backups. This backup file can be
+ helpful in case a bug in lyx2lyx caused data loss. For more information, see
+ #9554.
