How to disable automatic backups

[ancapdev]

Is there a way to disable the automatic creation of backups, e.g., when updating packages? I use source control for code management, as I expect most do, and having the notebook system create backups is a bit redundant and just adds manual steps to clean things up.

[fonsp]

Hey! I understand that the backup is redundant if you use version control.

We considered disabling backups when working inside a git dir, but our design choice here is that even if you are in a git dir, we can't be sure that the current state (before the update) is properly backed up. So we just create the backup in all cases. And if you use version control, it should be quite simple to remove the extra files, or gitignore them.