Re: revision/version numbers

[Donald Sharp]

Not so!  If I need to audit the old code I pull from the label!
Are you going to pull from individual file version numbers, instead?
And if you are being required to compare versions to labels
why aren't you trusting your versioning system?

donald
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Bert Robbins wrote:
> The label collectively identifies the files and their individual revisions.
> The label alone is useless in an audit.
> 
> Bert
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donald Sharp [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:11 PM
> > To: Katherine King
> > Cc: 'address@hidden'
> > Subject: Re: revision/version numbers
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you need this?  What is important is the label!
> > 
> > If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important
> > pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R
> > and parse the output.
> > 
> > donald
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine King wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am pretty much a beginner to CVS, but somehow "becoming" 
> > the expert on the
> > > team, and this is now causing me to need to ask for some 
> > help.  We have a
> > > CVS repository, and we are working with branches and tags, 
> > no problem.  But
> > > we need a little more information about revision numbers 
> > for the quality
> > > assurance team.  I have been able to get this for the main 
> > branch by locking
> > > the tree - this shows the version/revision numbers (cvs 
> > admin -l), but I
> > > need the version/revision numbers for all the files with a 
> > certain tag.  Is
> > > there a way to do this?
> > > 
> > > Sorry if this is a silly question, but I haven't been able 
> > to find it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Kate
> > > 
> > > 
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