Re: delete the history of a file

[Mark E. Hamilton]

FD wrote:
> My problem is:
> I have a file stored in a CVS repository whit version number 1.2
> if I update the file with a new version without -r1.3 parameter (I'm
> forgot the parameter), cvs archive the file with number release 2.1.

I can't explain why CVS incremented the revision from 1.2 to 2.1. It 
should have incremented it to 1.3 automatically. One of the gurus here 
can probably explain it.

IAE, you should not be setting the file revision numbers yourself when 
you commit files. As you've found you're just going to cause problems 
for yourself. It's simpler to treat them as CVS internal numbers only, 
and use tags to mark important points in your code.

I can understand the desire to have the major revision number match your 
product version number. It can be more logical in some situations where 
the file revisions are visible (cvs diff, for instance). However, you 
should only set the major revision once, and then let CVS increment the 
minor revisions automatically.

> Now I want delete the file completly with
> cvs remove "myfilename"
> cvs commit "myfilename"
>
> I remove the file "myfilename",v too

I assume that you mean you removed the 'Attic/myfilename,v' file, since 
that's where it was moved to when you removed/committed it.

> When I want add a file with name "myfilename" the first version number
> is 2.2

http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_4.html#SEC47

explains why your new 'myfilename' would be assigned a revision of 2.1. 
I can't explain why it's getting set to 2.2, unless you didn't remove 
the Attic/myfilename,v file. In this case the 'cvs add' would simply 
restore the removed file and increment the revision number.

> How can reset ne version number to 1.1?
> Where is stored the last number version of  "myfilename"?
> thank's for the support

You can't reset the 'myfilename' revision number to 1.1 either because 
you didn't remove the ',v' file and so the revision can only be set to 
something larger than the existing versions, or some other file in the 
same directory was already at 2.x when you added the file.

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666