From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: edit version-controlled, hard-linked file Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216296224 631 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 12:03:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:03:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 14:04:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJSDZ-0004DJ-5W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJSCg-0000L5-Fn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJSCN-0000L0-Sm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJSCN-0000Ko-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55242 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJSCN-0000Kl-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57765 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJSCM-0006Uv-Sz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KJSCF-0004Qp-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:02:55 +0000 Original-Received: from 139.85.239.127 ([139.85.239.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:02:55 +0000 Original-Received: from ndbecker2 by 139.85.239.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:02:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.85.239.127 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55675 Archived-At: Neal Becker wrote: > If I edit a version-controlled, hard-linked file, no backup is made (cause > it's version-controlled), and the results is the editing does _not_ break > the hard link. > > Sometimes that's what I want. Other times it's not. > > I don't know how to get emacs to break the hard link. Any ideas (or do we > need yet another variable for this?) I found vc-make-backups variable. I think what's needed is vc-make-backups-when-linked.