Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > If you don't use RCS in a multi-level environment, same as Eli, and 
  > nobody else does, we don't really need that locking feature, and so we 
  > don't need vc-next-action to "steal the lock" as a separate step. We 
  > don't need that function, and we don't need the `steal-lock' backend 
  > command.

We cannot conclude that a feature is unused
from a discussion on this list.  That requires polling the list.

C-x v v for RCS works fine.  Likewise for CVS.  We will not change
those behaviors.

We can change what it does for git, if git users like the change.
That is something we can tell from discussion on this list.


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