[cvsnt] Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

[Tony Hoyle]

Swaroop George wrote:
> Hi,
> I am experiencing a peculiar problem. Ours is a huge project and had
> multiple enhancement versions going in since live. Inaddition, we have
> monthly maintenance release as well as patch releases on an as needed
> basis. All this led us creating multiple branches to the code base.
> And the version numbers have now become as long as 1.2.2.1.2.1.2.1 and
> quite cumbersome to handle.

Don't handle them - just treat them as internal to CVS and ignore them.

The only time you need specific numbers is for comparing revisions, and 
your frontend will normally handle that behind the scenes without 
needing to worry about the numbers themselves.

Tony