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Martin Tournoij
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In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md, overwriting any previous file.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md, overwriting any previous file.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

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In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?

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Martin Tournoij
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How can I prevent files in backupdir from overriding similar named files?

In my vimrc I have:

set backupdir=~/.cache/vim/backup |call mkdir(&backupdir, 'p', 0o700)
set undodir=~/.cache/vim/undo     |call mkdir(&undodir,   'p', 0o700)

This stores a backup file in ~/.cache/vim/backup on every write, which is useful sometimes if I accidentally remove something, or remove something that I ended up wanting to have later anyway.

The problem is that the filename is just the "basename", that is, both ~/one/README.md and ~/two/README.md get written as ~/.cache/vim/backup/README.md.

This problem doesn't exist for undodir, which stores it as two files, with the full pathname:

~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%one%README.md
~/.vim/cache/undo/%home%martin%two%README.md

How can I keep a unique copy for every pathname, similar to what undodir does by default?