Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:16:44 +0200
> Cc: Michael Olson <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > Actually I think this is a "feature" of VC which we should tame
> > significantly: basically, this only makes sense under RCS (and maybe SCCS)
> > but happens to be in the generic part of VC, so it can bite at any time when
> > used with other backends.  The idea was that under RCS if a file <foo> is
> > absent but RCS/<foo>,v is present, than <foo> is virtually present, except
> > it needs to be checkout first.
> 
> That does not even make sense in RCS for me.  One locks files, but
> does not delete them.

AFAIR, with RCS, when you checkin a file, the work copy is deleted
unless you use the -u or -l switch.  So it's quite normal to have no
working file at all.