Re: branching / cvs question

[Ronald Petty]

Thanks Larry,
So does mean that the HEAD is the vendor branch?  Or is that assumption
incorrect?

Ron

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:42, Larry Jones wrote:
> Ronald Petty writes:
> > 
> > I am also interested in a more detailed explanation of the rcs files.  I
> > am making a cvsweb replacement (adding security etc), but I am not sure
> > how to use the symbols/magic/branches.  I am diffing/patching the rcs
> > files myself and need to know how to follow a version history so I can
> > recreate the file so it can be viewed in a browser.  I do not want to
> > use r tools before someone tells me too :)
> 
> See the rcsfile man page (from the unmentionable r tools) for basic
> info.  The only thing CVS does differently is the "magic" revision
> numbers for branch tags.  RCS can't create a branch without immediately
> creating revisions on the branch.  CVS adopted a lazy approach instead
> where no revisions are created on the branch until real changes are
> checked in.  So, when you create a branch in CVS, all it does is create
> a tag for the branch defined as a magic revision number.  The magic
> revision number is the revision number of the branch point followed by a
> zero and the branch number (where even numbers are user branches and odd
> numbers are vendor branch numbers).  So, if the base revision is 1.12,
> the first user branch would be 1.12.2 which CVS represents as the magic
> revision 1.12.0.2.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> Talk about someone easy to exploit! -- Calvin
>