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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 9d525393004..0d6808d9e45 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ customizable variable @code{vc-handled-backends} to @code{nil} * Branches:: Multiple lines of development. @ifnottex * Remote Repositories:: Efficient access to remote CVS servers. -* Snapshots:: Sets of file versions treated as a unit. +* Revision Tags:: Symbolic names for revisions * Miscellaneous VC:: Various other commands and features of VC. * Customizing VC:: Variables that change VC's behavior. @end ifnottex @@ -1300,8 +1300,8 @@ git, and Mercurial. SCCS was the first version-control system ever built, and was long ago superseded by later and more advanced ones; Emacs supports it only for backward compatibility and historical reasons. VC compensates for -certain features missing in SCCS (snapshots, for example) by -implementing them itself, but some other VC features, such as multiple +certain features missing in SCCS (tag names for releases, for example) by +implementing them itself. Some other VC features, such as multiple branches, are not available with SCCS. Since SCCS is non-free you should not use it; use its free replacement CSSC instead. But you should use CSSC only if for some reason you cannot use a more @@ -1895,19 +1895,19 @@ buffer in another window. You can specify a checked-in revision by its ID; an empty input specifies the current contents of the work file (which may be different -from all the checked-in revisions). You can also specify a snapshot name +from all the checked-in revisions). You can also specify a tag or branch name @iftex -(@pxref{Snapshots,,,emacs-xtra, Specialized Emacs Features}) +(@pxref{Tags,,,emacs-xtra, Specialized Emacs Features}) @end iftex @ifnottex -(@pxref{Snapshots}) +(@pxref{Tags}) @end ifnottex instead of one or both revision ID. Note that if your version-control system is file-oriented (SCCS, RCS, CVS) rather than fileset-oriented (Subversion, GNU Arch, git, Mercurial) specifying a revision of a multiple-file fileset by -revision ID (as opposed to a snapshot name or RSCCS/RCS tag) is +revision ID (as opposed to a symbolic tag name) is unlikely to return diffs that are connected in any meaningful way. If you invoke @kbd{C-u C-x v =} or @kbd{C-u C-x v =} from a buffer |