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Delete backup files when saving
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Autosaves aren't needed once you've saved -- but emacs should already be removing them when you save your changes.
Backups are very specifically protecting you from the situation where the thing you saved was wrong. If you think that's useless, you haven't understood the purpose.
That's what git is for, or just having undo-tree from which the file can be reverted to a previous state.
I tried to keep auto-saves and backup files in their own separate directory, since they always litter my projects which is annoying, but they just won't listen, I have to disable them.
Even for files which are being tracked in version control, I don't agree that VCS always replaces backups. In some cases, yes; but backups are to protect me from data loss, and I want that protection in more situations than VCS gives me.
I assume you mean "with a persistent undo record", which is another form of backup file, so sure -- whichever kind(s) of backup you prefer. Personally I believe I'd still want regular backups even if I used that -- if I can't trivially grep or compare old versions, I'd feel I'm missing a capability.
I keep all backups in a separate directory, and I do not experience your problem, so that sounds to me like a fixable config issue.