Heather wrote:
> We are doing parallel development with 2 different versions of our
> code.  We have version 2 on a branch and version 3 is on our main
> trunk.  What we want to do is update the revision numbers on the
> version 2 branch to be 2.xx and the revision numbers on the version 3
> trunk to be 3.xx.
No, you don't :=)

Managing revision numbers should be considered a black box to you and me -
let the program handle the revision numbers. Handle what you need through
symbolic tags - they are much simpler to manage, and much more intuitive.

> Is this possible?
Actually, no it's not, because of the way CVS manages its revision numbers.
If you _really_ want the gory details, you can refer to
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.18/cvs_5.html#SEC58.

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


 


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