GNU bug report logs - #75398
30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75398: 30.0.93;
 files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:10:43 -0500

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  > I understand that "version control" refers to backup files rather than
  > VCS, but what is "ITS-id"?  I can't find any references to that in the
  > manual, or by grepping, but since the text was written in 1993, is it
  > possible that it refers to "Incompatible Time-Sharing System"...?

It might.  Some of this code may have been translated from TECO in
1984/5.  But I can't recall what it that term might refer to.

On ITS, the only place to store a version number was (1) in the second
filename or (2) in the file contents.  When that text was written, was
there code in Emacs to store a version number in one of those places?


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