Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch

[Richard Stallman]

    Indeed, ci(1).  Wow, that is really sick.  Anyway, the normal behavior
    for Emacs is to keep locked files around, so I'd say we should cater
    for that case primordinarily.  If that means some slight inconvenience
    in "classical" RCS use from the command line, presumably not getting
    notice of the virtual file presence until checked out, it should be
    something we can live with.

It would be better, and nearly as easy, to default the answer to "yes"
when Emacs in batch mode asks about recreating such a file.