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: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208807399 24143 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 19:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 21:50:34 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Jo21q-0003wu-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:50:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo20p-00015L-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1zo-0000hx-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1zk-0000gP-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1zk-0000gJ-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jo1zj-0003UO-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jo1zh-00014E-6N; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <85mynnqrr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:21 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:95686 Archived-At: > 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 strongly suspect that this is a miscommunication. I do not know enough facts to disentangle it, though.