Re: CVS globally, RCS locally

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> On Thu Sep 21, Andre writes:

> Note also that VC/CVS has become much faster than it used to be.
> Especially under the new mode vc-cvs-stay-local (which is on by
> default), repository interactions are kept to an absolute minimum.
> I am planning to further enhance this by making a local copy of the
> repository version of a file, which will allow for completely local
> diffs (C-x v =) and local reverting (C-x v u).

> Hope you'll like these features; if they don't suit your needs,
> please don't hesitate to let me know and maybe we can work out
> something.  Thanks to Gerd and Stefan for discussions that shaped
> these new features.

Andre, these changes sound terrific.  Many of your suggested ideas
I've already implemented via shell scripts outside of Emacs, but those
are necessarily more manual than they need to be.  Having it all
happen intelligently within Emacs would be wonderful.