Re: vc-find-revision-no-save?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 24.10.2022 03:27, John Yates wrote:
> Notice that the default is nil.  What is the logic in allowing an
> historic revision to be associated with a file?  Why is it not merely
> a readonly buffer with no backing file?
>
> Perhaps I have been too influenced by git...  My mental model is that
> revisions are immutable_values_.  Is that not vc's model?

Caching? Easy of copying to replace the original?

VC's old, and a lot of it prefers convenience over purity. Including the 
convenience of implementation.