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From: | Alan Dayley |
Subject: | Re: Updating revision number on a branch. |
Date: | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:13:51 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 |
Heather wrote:
Okay, thanks for your quick repy! We were aware that this was basically a 'cosmetic' fix. We print the CVS log entries in the header of the files to easily see our changes, so we're seeing the 1.7.2.XXX, etc and wanted to 'clean it up' a bit so it was easier to read.
It is not a 'cosmetic' fix. Revision numbers are used by CVS to keep track of branches, etc. You would be manipulating meta-data used by CVS to operate properly. Tread carefully!
Think of it as manually changing the index value on the records of a table in a relational database. (CVS is not a relational database, but work with me here.) Will the relational indexes work after the change? Will SQL statements work correctly if a range of records now has different index numbers? Are you ready to trust the database engine coders to handle this data change correctly?
Please look here http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/cvs/revisions.html for a brief discussion on the topic that helped me explain to my coworkers.
As Jim said, use tags, not revision numbers. Grief may result especially when dealing with branches!
Alan
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