# HG changeset patch # User Andr Spiegel # Date 1070485489 0 # Node ID d470576fa910b00bfba319ada9ecd80ae483722f # Parent abbcd93bf46e83fc7f5912829814c998e754248f Say how to disable VC. diff -r abbcd93bf46e -r d470576fa910 man/files.texi --- a/man/files.texi Wed Dec 03 08:33:20 2003 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Wed Dec 03 21:04:49 2003 +0000 @@ -1124,6 +1124,10 @@ replace SCCS, known as CSSC; if you are using SCCS and don't want to make the incompatible change to RCS or CVS, you can switch to CSSC. + VC is enabled by default in Emacs. To disable it, set the +customizable variable @code{vc-handled-backends} to @code{nil} +(@pxref{Customizing VC}). + @menu * Introduction to VC:: How version control works in general. * VC Mode Line:: How the mode line shows version control status. @@ -2494,7 +2498,8 @@ control systems VC should handle. The default value is @code{(RCS CVS SCCS)}, so it contains all three version systems that are currently supported. If you want VC to ignore one or more of these systems, -exclude its name from the list. +exclude its name from the list. To disable VC entirely, set this +variable to @code{nil}. The order of systems in the list is significant: when you visit a file registered in more than one system (@pxref{Local Version Control}),