[cvsnt] Assigning revision

[Bo Berglund]

I have absolutely no knowledge of PVCS....

/Bo

-----Original Message-----
From: Remo Liechti [mailto:remo.liechti at swisslog.com]
Sent: den 2 november 2005 13:31
To: Bo Berglund
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Assigning revision


Hi Bo

Well, we are moving from PVCS to CVS and I need to have exactly the same
revision number of a file in cvs as it is in pvcs... Thats the matter
why I need to be able to set the revsion number... There are tags like
our product release number set on these files, they have to be ecatly
the same as in the pvcs too. Is it possible to set multiple tags or
something like this? I'm not able to try this now cause the cvs server
is down for maintanance...

Thank you very much!

Remo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bo Berglund [mailto:Bo.Berglund at system3r.se] 
> Sent: Mittwoch, 2. November 2005 13:15
> To: Remo Liechti
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Assigning revision
> 
> It is *NOT* stupid to assign releases via tags, in fact this 
> is the only sensible way to do it. The reason is simply that 
> each and every edit you do on a file and commit will cause 
> the revision number to step up. If you have more than one 
> single file in your project you will never be able to edit 
> all exactly the same number of times.
> Thus the files in your project will always have different 
> revision numbers at any given point in time (for example when 
> you do the release).
> 
> Here is where tagging comes in. A tag is placed on the whold 
> project so that *all* files are tagged with the exact same 
> tag, which should be a bit descriptive like 
> REL_MyProgram_Ver_1-0-2-23_2005-111-03 or similar.
> 
> Now every file records this tag in the current revision and 
> then later you can easily restore the whole project to this 
> state by updating to the tag. For example if you need to do 
> some maintenence work on an old release.
> 
> Tags is what you *should use*!
> 
> /Bo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remo Liechti [mailto:remo.liechti at swisslog.com]
> Sent: den 2 november 2005 09:47
> To: Bo Berglund
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Assigning revision
> 
> 
> Ah okay. Thank for the help.
> 
> But it is possible to go up to the 2.1 revision number by 
> some tagging or something similar?
> I think it's really stupid if you are not able to set a file 
> to a new release number through the revision number. Sure, it 
> would be possible to do releasing using the tags. But these 
> tags have to start with a letter and are not allowed to 
> contain '.'(dots) in it... 
> 
> What shall I do?
> 
> Remo
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bo Berglund [mailto:Bo.Berglund at system3r.se]
> > Sent: Mittwoch, 2. November 2005 09:42
> > To: Remo Liechti; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> > Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Assigning revision
> > 
> > You should NEVER EVER interfere with the file revision numbers!
> > These are really internal CVS data to keep track of the changes of 
> > files. You have no sensible way of using these and so you 
> should not 
> > try to set them either.
> > 
> > That is also why CVSNT has removed support for changing 
> them like you 
> > tried to do in recent versions. The capability still exists 
> in GNU CVS 
> > by what I understand, but it is no less of a danger there.
> > 
> > Furthermore, revision numbers with zeros are *for special cvs use 
> > only*!!!
> > They are so called nagic revisions and are used by cvs to 
> keep track 
> > of things like branches etc. Never to be used by the cvs user....
> > 
> > /Bo
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
> > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of Remo Liechti
> > Sent: den 2 november 2005 08:36
> > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> > Subject: [cvsnt] Assigning revision
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there
> > I'm using WinCVS. Now I got a file with the revision number 
> 1.36, and 
> > I need to change only this file to 2.0.
> > In a CVS book I read that this is possible using:
> > cvs -r commit -m myMessage -r 2.0 -- "MyDocument"
> >  
> > If I do so, I got the error:
> > cvs commit: warning: unrecognized response `cvs server: 
> > invalid option -- r' from cvs server
> > 
> > Seems like cvsNT does not support the forcing of a revision no more.
> > What to do?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Remo
> > 
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