GNU bug report logs - #8159
file-name-sans-version fails for some git files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8159: file-name-sans-version fails for some git files
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:39:32 +0000

On 3 March 2011 13:36, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> If you are okay with having foo.js~ as a simple backup file name of
> foo.js.~HEAD~1~ and foo.js.~3~ as its numbered backup, then I see no
> issues here.  I just wonder if that would surprise git users (I don't
> use it too much, so I don't know).

Why would you have a backup of such a file? It's a file visited with
vc-revision-other-window, which is by default read-only.

The question arises equally for other VC systems, it's just that not
all of them allow version numbers that contain tildes.

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