Re: Major revision numbers

[david]

> address@hidden wrote:
> > revision numbers are for CVS's internal use, you should not care what
> > they are.  Use tags if you want meaningful information.
> Weeellll... for the most part I agree.
> 
> However, there are times when you need to compare two revisions that are not
> tagged. If we followed the philosophy that you never use or see the numeric
> revision, then you'd have to apply two tags for the sole purpose of seeing
> what changed between the two revisions. It's much easier to say
> 
> cvs di -r1.123 -r1.124
> 
Right.  In that case, you're using 1.123 and 1.124 as arbitrary
designators ("magic cookies"), and you still shouldn't care what
they are, as long as you can type them fairly easily.  I don't
think Larry is saying that you shouldn't refer to them, but
that it shouldn't matter exactly what they are.

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