Re: forcing revision numbers

[Roman Fietze]

Hallo,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Stephen Rasku wrote:

> >Stephen Rasku writes:
> >> If forcing revision numbers is a bad idea why don't we disable the
> >> functionality?
> >
> >Because, despite our fascist tendencies, we understand that there
> are,
> >on very rare occasions, good reasons for breaking the rules.
> >
>
> Do you have an example?
> ...

If you have to admin some CVS files, this command often only takes
internal revision numbers (e.g. outdate -o). When branching of a whole
tree of directories it's often easier to look at the result (e.g. with a
graphical frontend)  when they branch off the same version. And it's
easier to get the version numbers into some C code than the tags.

We use forced check in only for soem of our code, the rest just uses tags
and we no longer care about revisions.

Roman

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