From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:56:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83wpv57o7w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghsfd3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2rknr2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvwellmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <56023A6C.3020302@yandex.ru> <5602BE3E.1050009@yandex.ru> <5602C4DE.8020105@yandex.ru> <560B4899.2070708@yandex.ru> <83wpv8be0x.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvw4b871.fsf@gnu.org> <560BC90B.1040902@yandex.ru> <560C9B3C.70306@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443769031 28913 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 06:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 06:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 08:57:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhuH9-0004lZ-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhuH9-0001rl-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhuGv-0001ra-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhuGv-0002Eo-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhuGr-0002E7-Bo; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVK00G00Z6DMZ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:56:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVK00GM8ZAJEN40@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:56:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190647 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, > dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:27:49 -0400 > > > > I still use RCS. > > > Please elaborate: do you really benefit from the ability to lock the > > file in advance? > > No, I didn't know about that feature. The message said "locking", > so I tought it meant locking by checkout. That's about what it does, indeed. But you will never see any effects of locking if you don't share the repository with another user.