From: Tommy Thorn Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:41:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert. Message-ID: <47AD3CFC.7090401@thorn.ws> In-Reply-To: <87prv7z84i.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> 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