>>On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:46:52PM +0100, Thomas Eliassson wrote:
>> Now when we start using CVS I see that we can 
>> use 'cvs commit -r2.4 file.txt' to commit a file with a specific 
>> revision number (in the example 2.4). Is this safe, or may we run into 
>> some trouble later on?
> 
> This is safe, in the sense that CVS will handle it just fine; it
> won't corrupt your data or start spitting error messages.
> 
> The problem (or *a* problem; there may be others) is that
> forevermore, every time someone adds a new file, they'll have to
> remember to say:
>       cvs add -r whatever_the_major_revision_number_is_right_now myfile


I think I was a little missunderstood.


We will ignore revision numbers now that we start using CVS.

I only wanted revision numbers for old files (pre-CVS) to continue in

the same line of numbers (to be easier to track).


I.e. if file foo.bar was (pre-CVS)2.4, I'd like to put it in CVS as 
revision 2.4,  but from that on use tags for releases (i.e. revision 
numbers will be 'ignored' by users).
The point is that I don't want to have a pre-CVS file with revision 2.4 
starting over again with 1.1 in CVS. I think that might confuse people 
later on.
This also means that it's perfectly ok (even preferred) for new files to 
be numbered with 1.1, as long as I can still track files from before we 
had CVS. I also checked that this is the way it works (at least with our 
CVS setup), so if one file in the directory has rev. 2.6, a newly added 
file will have rev.no. 1.1.

Thanks for your information.
/Thomas

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