Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1

[Van L]

> Think of backup files (I
> generally use numeric backups to actually retain more than one old
> copy - more clutter!) as a defense against shooting yourself in the
> foot. A version control system does that, only better. Tools like Git
> or Mercurial make it trivial to create and manage little repositories
> ("git init" creates a new repo in the current directory, for example).
> You need not push changes to a central server if you don't care to.

A complete beginner might want to try fossil.

It has builtin wiki, ticket tracking, and web-frontend.

http://www.fossil-scm.org/