From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:08:50 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186456206 20135 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 03:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 05:10:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIFSI-0001EW-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIFSF-0004kS-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIFSC-0004kN-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIFS3-0004k6-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIFS3-0004k3-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.8.233.24] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIFRc-0006fl-Pg; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-42-48.inter.net.il [80.230.42.48]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IOK19456 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 06:08:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:16:44 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76123 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:16:44 +0200 > Cc: Michael Olson , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Actually I think this is a "feature" of VC which we should tame > > significantly: basically, this only makes sense under RCS (and maybe SCCS) > > but happens to be in the generic part of VC, so it can bite at any time when > > used with other backends. The idea was that under RCS if a file is > > absent but RCS/,v is present, than is virtually present, except > > it needs to be checkout first. > > That does not even make sense in RCS for me. One locks files, but > does not delete them. AFAIR, with RCS, when you checkin a file, the work copy is deleted unless you use the -u or -l switch. So it's quite normal to have no working file at all.