From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 4 minor suggestions for files.el Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304181440.h3IEeKRU013776@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200304142022.h3EKMHRu026814@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200304172139.h3HLdBvK009948@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050672259.633.14.camel@localhost> <200304181423.h3IEN3Je013661@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050676606.633.28.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050677247 10663 80.91.224.249 (18 Apr 2003 14:47:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 16:47:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196X99-0002l7-00 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 196XCV-0004ij-00 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:50:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196X9S-0003sR-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 196X6e-0003BY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 196X5L-0002Rl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196X2S-0000rL-00; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3IEeKx6013778; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h3IEeKRU013776; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Andre Spiegel Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13287 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13287 > > Why would it hurt particularly to undo the version-headers-change ? > > With RCS, for example, VC uses the version header to determine the file > version and file state, as displayed in the mode line. If you undo the > version header change, save and revisit, VC will show a wrong version, > and it might think that the file is locked when in fact it isn't, etc. But this is a quirk of RCS. We could do something specific for RCS, but there's no reason why CVS, Subversion, SCCS and others should suffer from it as well. Stefan