Re: Add backup option to convert-ly (Issue 3572) (issue 14040043)

[Phil Holmes]

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> On 2013/09/30 15:10:00, PhilEHolmes wrote:
> > Julien - I'm not convinced that's a good idea.  It would mean that,
> once you'd
> > "turned numbering on", then you couldn't turn it off except by
> deleting all the
> > numbered files.  I think it's better to let the user select, based on
> the
> > command line switches.
>
> By deleting or renaming the _first_ numbered file.  I think that's ok as
> a default, but it might make sense to have an option -n0 or whatever
> that explicitly turns it off even when there are already numbered
> backups.
>
> https://codereview.appspot.com/14040043/


It was Eluze's enhancement and his coding.  Let's let him decide.

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Phil Holmes