From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#75398: 30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:34:22 +0200 Message-ID: <86jzb857v5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="371"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 75398@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 15:36:43 2025 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tUoDi-000AXU-U6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:36:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tUoD7-0002PF-Q3; 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Commentary: > > ;; Defines most of Emacs's file- and directory-handling functions, > ;; including basic file visiting, backup generation, link handling, > ;; ITS-id version control, load- and write-hook handling, and the like. > > I understand that "version control" refers to backup files rather than > VCS, but what is "ITS-id"? I can't find any references to that in the > manual, or by grepping, but since the text was written in 1993, is it > possible that it refers to "Incompatible Time-Sharing System"...? Yes, I think ITS was the system which introduced numbered backup files. Maybe someone else (Richard?) could confirm. This commentary was added by Eric Raymond in March 1993.