Ah but there is a big difference here between checking that
a latest revision # is on a web box, and saying when I commit
I want the revision # to look a certain way.
What I probably should have said was:
"Don't attempt to fit your projects version numbering scheme
into cvs's version numbers. Use tags( labels ) and branches
to enforce this"
donald
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:09:45PM -0700, TC wrote:
> snip
> >Don't look at the version numbers. The cvs manual explicitly states
> >that the numbers are control numbers internal to cvs, and if
> >you are looking at them you probably are trying to do something wrong
> >with cvs. Use labels and branches to provide what you are looking for.
> >
> >donald
> I am not sure I agree with this...
> In a dev Env a group of developers access a common web dev box for example
> we run some portion of the web app, we just want to know that our last
> commited code is on the dev box we can verify this by just checking
> the $Id stamp. We are not at the point we want to tag a release we are just
> deving
> but we all want to see each others current work & be able to verify
> this.....
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