On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 17:25, Michael Cheponis <michael.chepo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. -- Ottavio Caruso