git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Tommy Thorn <tommy-git@thorn.ws>
To: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert.
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:41:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AD3CFC.7090401@thorn.ws> (raw)
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

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-09  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 12:51 [PATCH 3/4] git.el: Check for existing buffers on revert Alexandre Julliard
2008-02-08 14:30 ` Sergei Organov
2008-02-08 14:54   ` Alexandre Julliard
2008-02-08 17:10     ` Sergei Organov
2008-02-09  5:41       ` Tommy Thorn [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=47AD3CFC.7090401@thorn.ws \
    --to=tommy-git@thorn.ws \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=julliard@winehq.org \
    --cc=osv@javad.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).