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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@ifsworld.com>
Cc: 10753@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10753: 24.0.50; Vc-rcs under Windows does not make buffer or file read-only when file	is checked in
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:11:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gzybjja.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EDADAC3A3FAF45A31816E76E26AFEBAE548CF347@LKPEXCCR2.corpnet.ifsworld.com>

> From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@ifsworld.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0100
> 
> C-x C-f c:/test.txt RET
> type some data and save with C-x C-s
> C-x v v
> Chose RCS as backend.
> Notice that the buffer is not read-only, and the same goes for the file.
> 
> This is dangerous since I by mistake started to edit a file, thinking it
> was checked out. When I then did C-x v v RCS checked out the previous
> version on top of my working files, overwriting all my changes.

This rings a bell.  Please see if this is not a duplicate of 8924.
You can find the RCS binaries I mentioned there on this page:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 10:40 bug#10753: 24.0.50; Vc-rcs under Windows does not make buffer or file read-only when file is checked in Mathias Dahl
2012-02-07 17:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-07 18:47   ` Mathias Dahl
2012-02-07 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-02-07 19:06 ` bug#10753: Eli's hunch was correct Mathias Dahl

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