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

[Stefan Monnier]

Philip Kaludercic [2022-10-24 16:02:15] wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>> 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?

I can answer this one: because back when we wrote this code, the "Git"
of the day was called "CVS" and getting a historic revision required
fetching it from the centralized server, so you were usually quite happy
to keep a local copy, even if you had to erase them manually every once
in a while.

> If that is the motivation, is there a reason the files are stored on the
> current working directory, instead of using /tmp or ~/.cache?  I have
> set that option to t which is a great improvement IMO, as I don't want
> to fill up my working directory with temporary files.

I suspect the default should be changed, indeed.


        Stefan