Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

   >> But as I learned from David and Eli that ESR, removed another feature, 
namely
   >> undo-last-checkin AKA rollback.

   > The most natural way to re-add tihs feature is to make vc-rcs.el
   > understand the "Amend:" header that's also used by Git.

   > In Git, this lets you mark the current commit as replacing the last
   > one, instead of being a completely new one. So it seems to be
   > exactly your use case.


But now I am confused, so  Git and I presume  hg provides for all
practical purpose a similar functionality. Why was it then removed. Ok I
confess I better read the links, which were provided by David and Eli
yesterday.