Shane McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Thornley, David wrote:
> > The right answer is to stop thinking about the rev number and just > > apply a tag when you want something you can refer to. Leave the > > revision numbers to CVS. > point taken. but then what is the use of having a hierchal rev number if > tags are what one should use? wouldn't cvs just use an incrementing > number ie 1,2,3,4 instead of 1.0.1,1.0.2,etc.. Some of it is purely historical, required for compatibility with RCS (upon which CVS was built), and hence serves no useful purpose. The major rev number (to the left of the first decimal) is an example of this. But some kind of branching scheme (as opposed to simple one-dimensional increments) is required to support, well, branching. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson Back in the Sixties we didn't have video games and the Internet. All we had was drugs and naked people. - Scott Bateman _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
