From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:08:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86zm13andn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <85y7gndqkt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y7glo91t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8EF38E17-F615-4EC1-B971-024AE0651795@MIT.EDU> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187226278 1532 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2007 01:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 03:04:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILTms-0000Dr-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:04:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILTms-0001ZM-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILTmp-0001ZB-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILTmo-0001Yx-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILTmo-0001Yt-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILTmn-0003Fi-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILTqJ-0002U2-Em; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:08:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <8EF38E17-F615-4EC1-B971-024AE0651795@MIT.EDU> (message from chad brown on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:14:04 -0700) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76603 Archived-At: I'm not sure that I understand your question, but maybe I can clarify via example: ~/Library/elisp/RCS/mh-flists.el,v exists and contains valuable (to me) historic information about changes over time, but ~/ Library/elisp/mh-flists.el does not exist, should not exist, and has not existed for many months. What is the motive for doing things this way? Is it considered normal RCS usage? Why not rename the master file to some name that nothing will try to use, such as ~/Library/elisp/RCS/=mh-flists.el.old,v or ~/Library/.archive/elisp/RCS/mh-flists.el,v ?