Re: RCS: (vc-next-action 1) only New Backend

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:25:21 -0400
> 
> > And, btw, the removal of the capability to specify a revision didn't
> > remove the prefix argument, it just limited its meaning to specifying
> > a different back-end.
> 
> That's the point: it leaves the C-u to be used for something else which
> is not useful only for RCS but potentially for all backends.
> 
> I'm perfectly OK with providing the ability to specify the revision
> number to use (in vc-rcs.el).  What I'm opposed to is to add special
> support for that in the generic code.  It can all be done within
> vc-rcs.el using log-edit-extract-headers.

Once again, specifying a revision at check-in time is not limited to
RCS, it is also supported by CVS and SCCS.