Re: vc-find-revision-no-save?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Okt 29 2022, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>
>> Natural out of habit or natural out of necessity?  I remember being
>> surprised that after inspecting a few old versions of a file that my
>> directory was littered with the these files.
>
> They are like numbered backups.

Fair enough, but a popular configuration is

     (setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.local/share/backup")))

that avoids littering the working directory with backup files.