[news.eclipse.tools] Re: CVS: how to delete revisions ?

["Christian Andersch" <pag-ees@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, maybe it is not recommended to erase a revision.
But there MUST be a possibility to do that.

As the CVS server is hosted on my Windows Machine, the repository cannot
grow as big as it wants to, because my harddisk space is not unlimited...


"Michael R Head" <burner@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:pan.2003.04.01.13.36.55.784687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:14:04 +0200, Christian Andersch wrote:
>
> > Okay, somehow I managed to set up a CVS server under WinXP ;-)
> >
> > I shared a project into it.
> > Checking in single files using  the "commit" command and checking them
> > out with "replace with... revision" works fine.
> >
> > 2 questions:
> >
> > 1. How can I remove some revisions to clean up the repository ?
>
> You really don't want to do this. The reason revision control systems
> exist to keep all previous versions, so you can always go back to a
> previously committed version.
>
>
> > 2. How do manage to upgrade the version number of my soruce code to
> > "2.0" and so on ? Up to now, it is automatically numbered "1.1", "1.2",
> > "1.3"
> etc.
>
> You don't want to do this either. The revision number is a unique ID
> (modulo different files) that CVS generates for each commit of a given
> file. What you might want to do is to 'tag' which way to give a symbolic
> name to a particular set of files.
>
> For example, when a team releases a version of a project in CVS, they
> might create a tag called RELEASE_2_1_0 so it's always possible to load
> that version out of the repository in the future.
>
> mike
>
> > Christian