BUG Re: [Gnu-arch-users] those pesty .#blah emacs symlinks

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:44, Robert Anderson wrote:
> Some of my developers are complaining about always having to
> remove .#blah emacs symlink droppings so they can commit.
> 
> I don't mind a solution from either end here:  how do you stop
> emacs from creating those, or, alternatively, can we have an
> option for turning off that check?
> 
> We already have the file pattern in the precious category, so I'm
> not sure what business it is of arch's that precious file
> symlinks are valid or not.  I'd prefer that this check was only
> performed on files matching the source pattern, since you might
> care in that case.  In either case, you ought to be able to turn
> off the check altogether, IMO.

I don't think turning the check off is necessarily the right way.
certainly it's irrelevant to nonsource and shouldn't happen there (or
failures should be ignored anyway).

Rob
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