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Re: Is there a limint on the number of branches in CVS?


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Subject: Re: Is there a limint on the number of branches in CVS?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:20:56 -0400

Mark D. Baushke writes:
>
> However, while the number of branches is
> theoretically unlimited, you will likely have
> problems if the <num> in a new branch to be
> created such as 1.1.0.<new> gets to the point
> where <new> will no longer fit into an 'int' on
> the server you are using.

That's one place where CVS has deviated from the "golden"
path set by RCS -- RCS is very careful to always work with
revision numbers as strings rather than converting back
and forth between strings and integers, so it never has
such problems.  CVS was not as carefully implemented.
Fixing it would be a worthwile goal.

-Larry Jones


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