RE: SVN vs RCS - How do I disable svn version control in favour ofRCS

[Marc Armstrong]

Giorgios/David

Thanks for your responses. I have tried changing the handled backends variable but this makes no difference. I have solved my problem however, by changing the svn sub-directory name that emacs recognises as a repository i.e. in vc-svn.el I changed

(defconst vc-svn-admin-directory

  (cond ((and (memq system-type '(cygwin windows-nt ms-dos))

              (getenv "SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK"))

         "_svn")

        (t ".svn"))

  "The name of the \".svn\" subdirectory or its equivalent.")

To

(defconst vc-svn-admin-directory

  (cond ((and (memq system-type '(cygwin windows-nt ms-dos))

              (getenv "SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK"))

         "_svn")

        (t ".svn_mja"))

  "The name of the \".svn\" subdirectory or its equivalent.")

Best regards,

Marc.

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+m.armstrong=pelamiswave.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+m.armstrong=pelamiswave.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:15 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SVN vs RCS - How do I disable svn version control in favour ofRCS

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:22:57 +0100, "Marc Armstrong" <m.armstrong@pelamiswave.com> wrote:

> Hello,

> I am currently working on a project which uses SVN as the primary

> version control system. However I like to use RCS for my local version

> control during development. Therefore, I typically would like to check

> out a complete build of software from our archives (using the tortoise

> tool), develop my software using emacs and RCS to control the changes

> I make, then check the final product back into subversion repository.

>

> My problem is that the files, which are already under svn control are

> recognized as such by emacs due to the local '.svn' directory, meaning

> I can't use RCS. I would appreciate very much if someone could advise

> me how to tell emacs to ignore the svn directory?

In Emacs 23.X (perhaps also in the released 22.X versions) you can

customize the value of `vc-handled-backends':

,---[ C-h v vc-handled-backends RET ]----------------------------------

|

| vc-handled-backends's value is

| (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch)

|

| Documentation:

| List of version control backends for which VC will be used.

| Entries in this list will be tried in order to determine whether a

| file is under that sort of version control.

| Removing an entry from the list prevents VC from being activated

| when visiting a file managed by that backend.

| An empty list disables VC altogether.

|

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