From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't start new branch in VC with RCS Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: <87egddy7op.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87h9ij6b44.fsf@nyu.edu> <83lh7vjx0x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453226242 18595 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 17:57:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:57:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 18:57:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1aLaWh-000517-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:57:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaWh-00022b-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaWW-00022C-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaWS-00064o-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:39549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaWS-00064Z-R0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u0JHupBf007820 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from E7450-wired.localdomain (ool-18be5d6c.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.93.108]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u0JHunOY007816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39B0046083; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:17:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83lh7vjx0x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:29:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:56:51 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108785 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 11 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: allan gottlieb >> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:48:43 -0500 >> >> I have a single file class-notes.html (with RCS/class-notes.html,v). >> I am using rcs in default (locking) mode >> >> The head revision is 8.6. I am the only user and the head revision is >> locked by me. C-x v = shows the one simple change I made since 8.6.1 >> and the file has been saved. >> >> I want to start branch 8.6.1. The manual suggests C-u C-x v v. >> >> C-u x v v asks for a new backend. I do not want to change backends. >> If I type RCS, it correctly reports that RCS is the current backend and >> exits. If I try 8.6.1, it correctly reports that there is no match (it >> is looking for a backend). >> >> Is this supposed to be possible under VC for RCS? I presumably could >> achieve my goal using rcs directly from the command line. > > What version of Emacs is that? 24.5