From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc with svn and git Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bmtrsdkl.fsf@kwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487959896 32403 195.159.176.226 (24 Feb 2017 18:11:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 24 19:11:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1chKL3-0007rb-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKL9-0008Rp-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKKz-0008Pr-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKKy-0007yl-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKKs-0007t7-3l; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1chKKr-0007K4-MO; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:17 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bmtrsdkl.fsf@kwork> (message from Karl Fogel on Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:28:42 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212577 Archived-At: But IMHO it would be better just to look for the dot directories, in a deeper-to-shallower search. That would be a very nice thing. Is there *any* supported VC backend that isn't just using a dot-directory to store version control metadata? The only thing that comes to mind is RCS/SCCS which can store the version data beside the original file.