From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11490: vc-next-action overwrites changes in non-checked-out RCS file Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4FB40003.3050502@kamens.us> <4FB451AE.60508@kamens.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337302012 32270 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2012 00:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 00:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11490@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jonathan Kamens Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 02:46:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLF-0003xO-F1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 02:46:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLE-0007Ou-Qp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLC-0007OT-FX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLA-0005OK-NZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLA-0005OE-KC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBLS-0006Ap-1K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 00:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11490 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11490-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11490.133730198723689 (code B ref 11490); Fri, 18 May 2012 00:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11490) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 May 2012 00:46:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59885 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBKs-0006A1-Bl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:48226 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBKY-00069V-Lv for 11490@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVBKE-0000Zt-T2; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:46 -0400 X-Spook: Rule Psix Afghanistan UOP enforcers e-bomb AMEMB X-Ran: 4mx\Y$|1mxu62/"-n[ZM5,W85V*!7NJLW#@E!fm}0/@U?n_$CHU9@/}2bGPZ!Zcvck/n%\ X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4FB451AE.60508@kamens.us> (Jonathan Kamens's message of "Wed, 16 May 2012 21:17:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60159 Archived-At: Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Try it without making the file writable. Well, ok, but your initial report began: Make an RCS file writable with chmod +w without locking it. If I instead use M-x toggle-read-only, make changes, and use C-x v v, then I see the problem. > The problem goes away when vc-mistrust-permissions is set to true. OK. It looks like that variable only affects RCS and SCCS? In which case I am guessing that few people will care if the default changes, so maybe we should just do that...