From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:21 +0200 Message-ID: <85mynnqrr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87fxtf3aiq.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85mynnsg0t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8763ub31eh.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85wsmrqv1j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87r6cze6zo.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <85r6czqtb7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iqybe5j0.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208783431 17165 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 13:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:10:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 15:10:57 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnvnF-0001JJ-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvmQ-0000IA-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvmM-0000I4-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvmB-0000Gt-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvmB-0000Gq-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnvmA-0003GO-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D0F13BE7 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBD13465B0 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-038-079.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.38.79]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2228A1D7144 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 74E341C3C7BC; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:21 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87iqybe5j0.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (Torsten Bronger's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:50:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6861/Mon Apr 21 09:50:29 2008 on mail-in-04.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95626 Archived-At: Torsten Bronger writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> [...] This decision has been made at a time where we were talking >> pretty much only about centralized versioning control systems, and >> the existence of distributed versioning control tips the scale >> even further, since local branches provide much better control >> over versioning and consistent state savings than backup files. > > Note however that the distributed VCS'es don't store local copies of > the last revision as CVS and SVN do. Huh? Most certainly I can check out the last revision any time from my local version control system. > So you have only the original files in the tree. I can't make sense of what you are saying here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum