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Re: Anybody any idea on how to set back a revision number?


From: Lukas Ruf
Subject: Re: Anybody any idea on how to set back a revision number?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:40:14 +0100
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark wrote:

> 
> maybe, restore the repository from backup, prior to the command run.
> 
There is just the daily backup of the repository -- I do not want to
redo the changes of the last day...

> -or- maybe release version 3 of your software instead of version 2, what
> happened to version 2 can become folklore in your company
>
probably the best way

> -or- stop caring about the number CVS gives files and use tags to identify
> baselines and branches.
>
that's what I learned.

> Just curious though, why is it important to you that revisions start with 2
> instead of 3?
> 
Just for exactness: we developed some OS stuff and wanted to release
version 2.0 after several intermediary releases.

I think, I really forget about the release numbers and make use just
of the tags.  When we will approach release 4.... :-)

--lpr
> 
> --- Lukas Ruf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > as I posted yesterday:
> > Accidentaly, I set a revision to be 3.0 instead of 2.0 by issueing the
> > command
> > cvs commit -r 3.0
> > 
> > Is there any way how I can set back the revision to 2.0?
> > cvs commit -r 2.0
> > 
> > Produces the error: "2.0 too low..." -- as the documentation
> > describes.
> > 
> > So, my question:
> > Does anybody know how I can set the revision number to be 2.0 back
> > from 3.0 ?  -- Do I need to create a script that I must run over the
> > CVS repository?
> > 
> > THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP!
> > Lukas
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Lukas Ruf                        Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Office: ETZ-G61.2                             Computer Engineering and
Phone: +41/1/632 7312                        Networks Laboratory (TIK)
Fax:   +41/1/632 1035                                      ETH Zentrum
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