Re: New names for VC local version backups

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 24 Oct 2000, Andre Spiegel wrote:

> It is true that ultimately, the right place for this mechanism
> is more inside CVS than in Emacs, but we figured we'd rather do it in
> Emacs right now than wait for the CVS maintainers to add such a
> thing...

No offense towards CVS maintainers (in case some of them read this), but 
my personal bitter experience with some of them is that you shouldn't 
wait for them to do anything.  Every misfeature gets explained away as
the user's misunderstanding of CVS ``philosophy''.