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Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:01 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> ;; - vc-state-heuristic is gone. Previously defined in bzr, CVS,
> ;;   RCS, and SCCS, it was an attempt to circumvent the slowness of
> ;;   disk operations on older hardware (and in the case of bzr,
> ;;   unreasonable slowness of older bzr versions).

AFAIR, I introduced it (back in the CVS days) not for disk access but to
circumvent the slow access to the remote repository.


        Stefan



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