# HG changeset patch
# User Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
# Date 1226705797 0
# Node ID c7babe27159c2c0631591e84da45e4c483017fa0
# Parent  ae79259858c85e9dee8e0dc907b736042c4bb57d
(file-precious-flag): Document that this flag is advisory.

diff -r ae79259858c8 -r c7babe27159c lisp/ChangeLog
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Fri Nov 14 21:11:15 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Fri Nov 14 23:36:37 2008 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-11-14  Karl Fogel  <kfogel@red-bean.com>
+
+	* files.el (file-precious-flag): Document that this flag is
+	advisory.
+
 2008-11-14  Shigeru Fukaya  <shigeru.fukaya@gmail.com>
 
 	* emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (byte-compile-associative)
diff -r ae79259858c8 -r c7babe27159c lisp/files.el
--- a/lisp/files.el	Fri Nov 14 21:11:15 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/files.el	Fri Nov 14 23:36:37 2008 +0000
@@ -239,7 +239,11 @@
 
 Note that this feature forces backups to be made by copying.
 Yet, at the same time, saving a precious file
-breaks any hard links between it and other files."
+breaks any hard links between it and other files.
+
+This feature is advisory: for example, if the directory in which the
+file is being saved is not writeable, Emacs may ignore a non-nil value
+of `file-precious-flag' and write directly into the file."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'backup)