Re: [Gnu-arch-users] those pesty .#blah emacs symlinks

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Robert Anderson wrote:
> Some of my developers are complaining about always having to
> remove .#blah emacs symlink droppings so they can commit.

I find that to be a _good_ thing -- it prevents you from committing when
you've forgotten to save a file!

If you've saved all your files, there should be no .#* files around (if there
are, and emacs didn't crash or something, then it's a bug, so ...).

What exactly is the situation where this is a problem?  Do people really want
to commit with unsaved changes to files in the tree?  If it's just an
occasional `I changed this one file but don't want to commit the change',
then a quick-n-dirty way to handle it is mark the buffer as unmodified (M-~),
do the commit, and then modify the buffer again to make sure emacs saves it.

-Miles
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