RE: Branch or version tag?

[Jim.Hyslop]

Euan Guttridge wrote:
> How can you determine if a tag is a branch or version tag? 
'cvs status -v' will tell you. You could also use 'cvs log' but then you'd
have to manually interpret the revision number. Any revision number where
the second-to-last number is 0 is a branch tag. For example:

Non-branch tags: 1.3 1.2.2.1. 
Branch tags: 1.3.0.2, 1.3.12.3.0.4

You have to check on a file-by-file basis - it is possible for it to be a
branch tag in one file, and a non-branch tag in another (a branch tag still
specifies a version, by the way, so "version tag" is essentially a synonym
for "tag").

> Can this be changed between the two types?
Only by deleting the tag, then re-adding it as the other type.

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )