Re: backup files for files under VC

[David Kastrup]

Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>> [...]  This decision has been made at a time where we were talking
>> pretty much only about centralized versioning control systems, and
>> the existence of distributed versioning control tips the scale
>> even further, since local branches provide much better control
>> over versioning and consistent state savings than backup files.
>
> Note however that the distributed VCS'es don't store local copies of
> the last revision as CVS and SVN do.

Huh?  Most certainly I can check out the last revision any time from my
local version control system.

> So you have only the original files in the tree.

I can't make sense of what you are saying here.

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