Re: vc-find-revision-no-save?

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I can answer this one: because back when we wrote this code, the "Git"
  > of the day was called "CVS" and getting a historic revision required
  > fetching it from the centralized server, so you were usually quite happy
  > to keep a local copy, even if you had to erase them manually every once
  > in a while.

I still sometimes use CVS, and this feature is still useful with it.

  > > If that is the motivation, is there a reason the files are stored on the
  > > current working directory, instead of using /tmp or ~/.cache?

I think it is natural to put old-version files in the same directory
with the work files.  That's where one can find them again.

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