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

[Richard Stallman]

    > Relicensing a program is the sort of situation where you might
    > want to do this.

    What part does VC play in such a change?

You would use it to check in the files after relicensing.

    > We might want to arrange to automatically answer "yes" when it
    > asks whether to check out a deleted a file, if in batch mode.

    For any backend other than RCS, that would be bad.

This feature is meant for RCS.  Someone else proposed to turn
it off completely for other back ends.  That seems good to me.