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: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:15:56 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87mw6sdetf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <87y4qcj2mq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418400999 26314 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 16:16:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:16:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 17:16:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XzStK-0003x2-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:16:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzStK-0001tl-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzStB-0001re-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSt0-0000Vu-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSt0-0000Vo-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSsz-0003Of-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:16:09 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.156.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:16:09 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:16:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pwSz7PaV+oYEVo8hrUbze1N7LeE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179932 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer writes: > From a very practical point of view: I use RCS on most of my longer > latex documents, as it happens (without going into details) sometimes, > not very often but often enough, the coding is scrambled during a > check-in making the LaTeX file completely useless. And I thought nobody was using X-Symbol anymore. > In that case I simply remove the last commit and I am back in business > again. Removing this feature would be a deal breaker for me. If you have one directory per document, Git tends to be a more flexible solution. Admittedly, it is not all that good for keeping independent files in the same directory versioned independently (sort of like a glorified file backup). It would be an interesting exercise to teach this modus operandi to Emacs/VC (basically, keep a separate .git style directory for each file-gittified file and set the respective environment variable or command line argument to it for VC operations). -- David Kastrup