Re: The history of the Linux OS
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:13:41 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 23-Nov-98 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> i have 1.1.1
> >> i put it in rcs
> >> THEN i get 1.1.47
> >> so i put that in rcs
> >> NOW i get 1.1.x where 1 < x < 47
> >>
> >> how do i insert that inbetween 1.1.1 and 1.1.47?
> >
> > That's exactly the way you do _not_ want to do it. CVS doesn't care about the
> > internal RCS version numbers. Yes, I made the same mistake some time ago.
> > If a file isn't changed in between Linux release 2.1.128 and 2.1.129, it will
> > have the same (internal) RCS version number in both releases.
> >
> > CVS uses symbolic names (tags) to link the various RCS version numbers with a
> > global release name.
>
> then i can see no good reason to stick it in cvs
> if i cannot use it to track the changes to a particular FILE as the kernel moved
> from version to version (and to be able to ask questions like what changed in mm.c
> from 2.0.0 and 2.1.0 for example) what is the point of storing anything under cvs
cvs diff -r linus-2-0-0 -r linus-2-1-0 mm.c
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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