From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SVN vs RCS - How do I disable svn version control in favour of RCS Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:15:20 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87r67ikauf.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221669722 21438 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2008 16:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:42:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 18:42:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kg06p-0004YI-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg05n-00088I-LA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:41:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bsp8EKEEEejwZ9Jiq6RTU2lw+dg= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.50.215 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=k=[DmlhYL^MjWbH?lJH1Tkj\=Uboim1L^6Y=l; YgX6oX4W Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162388 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57731 Archived-At: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:22:57 +0100, "Marc Armstrong" wrote: > Hello, > I am currently working on a project which uses SVN as the primary > version control system. However I like to use RCS for my local version > control during development. Therefore, I typically would like to check > out a complete build of software from our archives (using the tortoise > tool), develop my software using emacs and RCS to control the changes > I make, then check the final product back into subversion repository. > > My problem is that the files, which are already under svn control are > recognized as such by emacs due to the local '.svn' directory, meaning > I can't use RCS. I would appreciate very much if someone could advise > me how to tell emacs to ignore the svn directory? In Emacs 23.X (perhaps also in the released 22.X versions) you can customize the value of `vc-handled-backends': ,---[ C-h v vc-handled-backends RET ]---------------------------------- | | vc-handled-backends's value is | (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch) | | Documentation: | List of version control backends for which VC will be used. | Entries in this list will be tried in order to determine whether a | file is under that sort of version control. | Removing an entry from the list prevents VC from being activated | when visiting a file managed by that backend. | An empty list disables VC altogether. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------