Re: backup files for files under VC

[Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>]

Hallöchen!

David Kastrup writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup writes:
>>
>>> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> 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.

Okay, sorry to have misled you.  But actually their origin doesn't
matter for what I tried to get across.  The typical cluttering up
that they generate in SVN working copies, and which may justify
avoiding additional eyesore by backup files, doesn't occur in
DVCS'es.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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