From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torsten Bronger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup files for files under VC Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:18:20 +0200 Organization: Phoenix Foundation Message-ID: <87ej8ze483.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> 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> <85mynnqrr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208784483 21224 80.91.229.10 (21 Apr 2008 13:28:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:28:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 15:47:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnwMQ-0008Ui-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvyN-0002Is-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnvxk-00026L-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnvxg-00024e-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnvxf-00024a-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnvxe-0005LV-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JnvxN-0003uF-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:21:17 +0000 Original-Received: from xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de ([87.78.134.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:21:17 +0000 Original-Received: from bronger by xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:21:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-87-78-134-178.netcologne.de X-PGP-Fingerprint: C5C8 D6E2 79D2 EFE9 8C0F 6D77 D5E3 CEFC 9F51 6B77 X-PGP-Affinity: will accept encrypted message for GPG X-Home-Page: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bronger X-Face: +wpw"|jN2Fde|7_lKBa0\7!_6suIE_m! x)'S9ytBu8tkt'k779jbzQ4o|p+@H_DCrIdnKG]E*w X-Binford: 6100 (more power) X-Accept-Language: de, en Jabber-ID: bronger@jabber.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f26KryyJdKh3BemdTC5/Xae51AY= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95627 Archived-At: Hallöchen! David Kastrup writes: > 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. I mean files like "thesis.tex.~1.3.~" in the same directory as your working copies. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: bronger@jabber.org (See http://ime.webhop.org for further contact info.)