Re: backup files for files under VC

[Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>]

Hallöchen!

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.  So you have only the original
files in the tree.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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