Re: bug report for ediff & RCS
Marc.Herbert(a)free.fr writes:
> Hi,
>
> I found you address in the changelog. Could not find better. Sorry if
> you don't maintain ediff. Please forward in this case.
>
> A problem with ediff : you can't compare with file revision in someone
> else's directory, when RCS has not the authorisation to extract a
> revision. Could in this case ediff issue a command to extract the ~1.3~
> file in /tmp ? In fact, this behaviour would also be interesting when
> you work on your own files.
Ediff is simply using a function provided by VC.
If copying to /tmp makes sense to VC and the maintainers are willing to
implement it, then ediff would use that as well.
However, I don't think ediff should be second-guessing what VC does and
modifying its behavior.
--michael