From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:16:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87tx10iya1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <87y4qcj2mq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87mw6sdetf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418405102 31344 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 17:25:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:25:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 18:24:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XzTxW-0005sk-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTxW-0003St-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTpp-0007xp-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTpk-0005xg-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTpk-0005xW-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:16:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTpi-0001Dc-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:16:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never X-Hashcash: 1:20:141212:gmane.emacs.devel::Yk8yJwyOEEfhUbru:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000CU6I User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) XEmacs/21.5-b33 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NdPX/zrhEtX2HJ2CBbJJZPZl5AQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179943 Archived-At: >> "David" == David Kastrup writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >> From a very practical point of view: I use RCS on most of my longer >> latex documents, as it happens (without going into details) sometimes, >> not very often but often enough, the coding is scrambled during a >> check-in making the LaTeX file completely useless. > And I thought nobody was using X-Symbol anymore. I didn't mention x-symbol explicitly but you got me. :-D >> In that case I simply remove the last commit and I am back in business >> again. Removing this feature would be a deal breaker for me. > If you have one directory per document, Git tends to be a more flexible > solution. Some time ago I gave git+vc a try but then found it to complicated for my purposes and was back with good old RCS. > Admittedly, it is not all that good for keeping independent > files in the same directory versioned independently (sort of like a > glorified file backup). This is my situation. > It would be an interesting exercise to teach > this modus operandi to Emacs/VC (basically, keep a separate .git style > directory for each file-gittified file and set the respective > environment variable or command line argument to it for VC operations).