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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 971483a6e4c..d074a55b762 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -779,6 +779,12 @@ operations typically break hard links, disconnecting the file name you visited from any alternate names for the same file. This has nothing to do with Emacs---the version control system does it. + Some file storage services support @dfn{file versioning}: they +record history of previous versions of files, and allow reverting to +those previous versions. If you want to be able to do that with files +hosted by those services when editing them with Emacs, customize +@code{backup-by-copying} to a non-@code{nil} value. + @node Customize Save @subsection Customizing Saving of Files |