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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: 4 minor suggestions for files.el
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304181440.h3IEeKRU013776@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1050676606.633.28.camel@localhost

> > Why would it hurt particularly to undo the version-headers-change ?
> 
> With RCS, for example, VC uses the version header to determine the file
> version and file state, as displayed in the mode line.  If you undo the
> version header change, save and revisit, VC will show a wrong version,
> and it might think that the file is locked when in fact it isn't, etc.

But this is a quirk of RCS.  We could do something specific
for RCS, but there's no reason why CVS, Subversion, SCCS and others
should suffer from it as well.


	Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-18 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-14 20:22 4 minor suggestions for files.el Stefan Monnier
2003-04-15 19:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-15 20:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-16  4:40 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-17 21:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-18 11:28     ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-18 13:24       ` Andre Spiegel
2003-04-18 14:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-18 14:36           ` Andre Spiegel
2003-04-18 14:40             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-04-19 19:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-22  0:45               ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-19 13:35         ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-29 21:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-05 14:32             ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 14:52               ` Andre Spiegel
2003-05-06 10:14                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-06 10:56                   ` Andre Spiegel
2003-05-07 11:51                     ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-07 12:31                       ` Andre Spiegel
2003-05-07 14:26                         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-09 11:20                         ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-06 13:00                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-07 11:50                     ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 14:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-06 10:14                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-06 12:54                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-07 11:50                     ` Richard Stallman

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