From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: <85hcdvqqd1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85mynnsg0t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8763ub31eh.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85wsmrqv1j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87r6cze6zo.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85r6czqtb7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iqybe5j0.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85mynnqrr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ej8ze483.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208785283 24413 80.91.229.10 (21 Apr 2008 13:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 16:00:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnwZ8-0001Df-Up for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnwFw-0005Cz-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnwFT-00055S-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnwFN-00054r-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnwFM-00054o-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.54]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnwFK-00009L-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872E61878BD for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DB62DB383 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-038-079.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.38.79]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3717C36E863 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0C8361C3C7BC; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87ej8ze483.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (Torsten Bronger's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:18:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6863/Mon Apr 21 14:55:32 2008 on mail-in-02.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95628 Archived-At: Torsten Bronger writes: > Hall=F6chen! > > David Kastrup writes: > >> Torsten Bronger writes: >> >>> David Kastrup writes: >>> >>>> [...] This decision has been made at a time where we were talking >>>> pretty much only about centralized versioning control systems, and >>>> the existence of distributed versioning control tips the scale >>>> even further, since local branches provide much better control >>>> over versioning and consistent state savings than backup files. >>> >>> Note however that the distributed VCS'es don't store local copies >>> of the last revision as CVS and SVN do. >> >> Huh? Most certainly I can check out the last revision any time >> from my local version control system. > > I mean files like "thesis.tex.~1.3.~" in the same directory as your > working copies. I think you are confused. Those aren't created by the version control system. They are auxiliary files Emacs creates (or has the version control system create) for its own operation when it can't perform them otherwise. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum