Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:08:57 +0000
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> >   REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
> >   local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   the last copy operation.
> 
> "haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state.  "didn't
> change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.

It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.