why does emacs (21.2.1) insist on backing up version controlled files?

why does emacs (21.2.1) insist on backing up version controlled files?

[Aaron Hanson]

Hi All-
    I think this is a known problem, but I'd like to be sure and know
if there is a work-around:

    I'm setting make-backup-files and vc-make-backup-files both to
Nil; yet I still get backups of version controlled files (ex:
pkg.spec.~1.10.~).

-Aaron

Re: why does emacs (21.2.1) insist on backing up version controlled files?

[Kai Großjohann]

adh1982@yahoo.com (Aaron Hanson) writes:

>     I'm setting make-backup-files and vc-make-backup-files both to
> Nil; yet I still get backups of version controlled files (ex:
> pkg.spec.~1.10.~).

See variable vc-cvs-stay-local-p.

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Re: why does emacs (21.2.1) insist on backing up version controlled files?

[Aaron Hanson]

hmm..
my installation (Red Hat Linux 9.0, emacs 21.2.1)
has no variables vc-cv* or cvs-s*
-Aaron

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message news:<844r4hf893.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>...
> adh1982@yahoo.com (Aaron Hanson) writes:
> 
> >     I'm setting make-backup-files and vc-make-backup-files both to
> > Nil; yet I still get backups of version controlled files (ex:
> > pkg.spec.~1.10.~).
> 
> See variable vc-cvs-stay-local-p.

Re: why does emacs (21.2.1) insist on backing up version controlled files?

[Kai Großjohann]

adh1982@yahoo.com (Aaron Hanson) writes:

> hmm..
> my installation (Red Hat Linux 9.0, emacs 21.2.1)
> has no variables vc-cv* or cvs-s*

M-x load-library RET vc-cvs RET, then try again.

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