From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghsfd3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2rknr2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvwellmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <56023A6C.3020302@yandex.ru> <87pp16sxzh.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443229855 3080 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2015 01:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 03:10:45 2015 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 1Zfe0h-0007Xo-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 03:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfe0h-0002Vv-1o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfe0Z-0002VX-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfe0Y-0006Ia-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfe0V-0006GB-UE; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfe0V-0000j0-AE; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:10:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87pp16sxzh.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:29:38 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:190349 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > There is already a vc-revert command. I think it changes the working files > > to match what is in the repository. > I tested it. Once you checkin, you cannot «remove/revert» to the version > before the checkin, at least not for the RCS backend. That's right. That's what vc-revert is supposed to do. The command to delete a version from the repository used to be vc-cancel. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.