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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2011-10-13 10:57:07 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2011-10-13 10:57:07 +0000
commit1989cc67aadd58061ad662f67cd81f49f0510789 (patch)
tree0f1fb8b303e08842aefb7b9e611982a0156c5499 /etc
parent5135b353825ce49831da388b497d0d9d48f61e13 (diff)
Note on how to update base revision number (since I got it wrong on first try)
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/cvs-tips.txt15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/cvs-tips.txt b/etc/cvs-tips.txt
index 8323b92f..d88d1e5a 100644
--- a/etc/cvs-tips.txt
+++ b/etc/cvs-tips.txt
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ NB: this merging will always create conficts with
$Id$ tags in source. (Is there a way to avoid this?)
------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Overriding the CVS/Root setting temporarily:
============================================
@@ -90,9 +88,6 @@ Useful command:
to force this behaviour.
-
------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Moving to a new branch
======================
@@ -103,3 +98,13 @@ This only works on a clean repository (no spurious files):
(The tr is needed because of some nasty filenames, e.g. etc/isa/\backslashname)
+Updating base revision number
+=============================
+
+Starting with a new base revision number is handy to easily see changes since last release.
+
+ cvs commit -f -R -r 12.0 -m"Update base revision number for 4.2 development cycle" .
+ cvs up -A
+
+Need second update to remove automatically added sticky tag.
+