CVS anomaly solved

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Thu Jul 20 14:06:31 EDT 2006


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:43 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:08 am, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>> Generally I see a numbering like that when I check something in on a
>>> branch vs. on the HEAD.  The HEAD will get numbering like 1.1, 1.2,
>>> etc., while the branch will get 1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.2, etc.
> cvs update -r HEAD BuiltinType.H 		#Checks out the head revision.
> Reapply my changes using emacs ediff
> cvs commit -r 1.2 BuiltinType.H		#Forces it into 1.2
> cvs admin -o1.1.1.2 BuiltinType.H		#get rid of this
> 
> Again, I have no clue as to why this occurred since all the files should 
> have been checked in identically. Possibly there may have been a $Id in the 
> initial file. 

$Id shouldn't impact that at all.  All that happens with $Id is that CVS 
will replace that tag in the source file with ID info after the checkin.

Anyway, glad the prob is fixed.

DR



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