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Re: [PATCH 3/4] git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert.

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TTTommy Thorn <tommy-git@thorn.ws>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 05:41 UTC
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Sergei Organov wrote:
> BTW, there is another related issue: what to do with buffers for which their
> files disappear (are removed). AFAIK PCVS doesn't close such buffers,
> that according to the above logic is confusing as well.
>

Please don't revert such buffers! More than once have I been saved from a blunder by the fact that Emacs still had a copy of the accidentally erase/overwritten file. The normal Emacs behaviour is to prompt upon editing whether to edit the buffer since the file has changed.

Thanks Tommy

Previous: Sergei Organov
Message 5 of 5 in “git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert.”
  1. 3/4 git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert.Alexandre Julliard, Feb 7, 2008
  2. Sergei OrganovFeb 8, 2008
  3. Alexandre JulliardFeb 8, 2008
  4. Sergei OrganovFeb 8, 2008
  5. Tommy ThornFeb 9, 2008

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