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

[Uwe Brauer]

>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer writes:
   >> But I am not sure that anybody finds this useful.

   > It is very useful, for people who treat VCS history as a script that
   > may be revised to improve presentation.  But for those who treat VCS
   > history as an audit trail (in some cases legally required or at least
   > extremely useful) rollback is a very dangerous feature.

   > I don't see any reason in a DWIMish front-end like vc.el to have the
   > rollback feature -- let those with the skills or the specialized use
   > cases use the command line or (for vc.el) write commands.

Just for the protocol: the vc pkg xemacs ships, still contains that
command!
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| 
| C-x v c runs `vc-cancel-version'
| 
| `vc-cancel-version' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
|   -- loaded from "vc"
| (vc-cancel-version NOREVERT)
| 
| Documentation:
| Get rid of most recently checked in version of this file.
| A prefix argument NOREVERT means do not revert the buffer afterwards.
| 
| Invoked with:
| 
| C-x v c
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