From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-find-revision-no-save? Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878rl543co.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16620"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, dgutov@yandex.ru, john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 23:57:57 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ooXMT-00046r-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:57:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ooXLs-0001qt-V4; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ooXLp-0001o3-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ooXLj-00025A-5J; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=wgFOxD6RiDWNuzQ2/SyENB85JCCTPBcwjukeaSn3q9c=; b=mUyBmUbm1/pB wFIZcITEgsK8LZ4ZYY5ZxfqA2R3dQVZOZGlbkvz5k3qxS9d5dRoY8gQcTidn8LkZr3oikbDTxNMAg 53TSxP4W+exgt+kWUMuIpPMPzcT2iubZfqA4swcaXEd16WEUbeS1h7F5lQpHRU8ruEW2PsYTqUQnv fPWhMWadMQPvIWjYVIIPn+hAhEu1iil7OGrNSf7qBujkbQsT8cHGkFbHXrlOiD6SQ7kymNyKAaUz+ FRC6PYczUR1RmzAEH39m3Ltra3rEO20+AEnpJnINhMnHYzi+AgvwWhBk6ajMjP8K2iRlSX6VlhdGZ 0BXvBkqT+wYuaM1RJbfuAg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ooXLi-00044r-QV; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:57:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:10:49 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298699 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. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)