Re: Versioning help after Tagging required.

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:07:56PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 
> "Sonya Iyer" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I want to bring my entire
> > module to have a version 1.3, so that changes to any file from here
> > on forth will be 1.4 (or 1.3.1.2 and so on...)
> 
> You might want to just ignore the RCS revision numbers (1.3, 1.3.2.1,
> etc.) -- just consider them to be an internal implementation detail of
> CVS -- and just use your tags to refer to the versions you want.

I'd word that more strongly.  You REALLY SHOULD ignore the RCS
revision numbers; "cvs commit -r" is a place you almost certainly
don't want to go.

For example, what happens when you add a new file, 3.java?  It'll
go in at revision 1.1 unless the person adding it remembers to
give the right "-r" option for whatever "module revision" is
appropriate at the moment.  And they have to remember the "-r" at
commit time, which may be quite a while after they "cvs add"ed
the file.  It's easy to forget to do this; thus, any process that
depends on it is bound to be fragile.

Use CVS tags instead; it's what they're for.

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