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Re: backup files for files under VC
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: backup files for files under VC |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:
> Hallöchen!
>
> David Kastrup writes:
>
>> Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup writes:
>>>
>>>> [...] This decision has been made at a time where we were talking
>>>> pretty much only about centralized versioning control systems, and
>>>> the existence of distributed versioning control tips the scale
>>>> even further, since local branches provide much better control
>>>> over versioning and consistent state savings than backup files.
>>>
>>> Note however that the distributed VCS'es don't store local copies
>>> of the last revision as CVS and SVN do.
>>
>> Huh? Most certainly I can check out the last revision any time
>> from my local version control system.
>
> I mean files like "thesis.tex.~1.3.~" in the same directory as your
> working copies.
I think you are confused. Those aren't created by the version control
system. They are auxiliary files Emacs creates (or has the version
control system create) for its own operation when it can't perform them
otherwise.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Messy VC checkouts (was: backup files for files under VC), Phil Hagelberg, 2008/04/21
- Re: Messy VC checkouts, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/21
- Re: Messy VC checkouts, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Torsten Bronger, 2008/04/21
- Re: backup files for files under VC, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/21