Re: How to change revision number for all files of a project?

Larry Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ben Stover writes:
> 
> After adding some files to a certain project they are listed with
> revision number 0

That's interesting -- revision numbers should start at 1.

> How can I replace the revision number of the newly added files with a
> number of the already existing files 1.7?

Don't.  Revision numbers are for internal CVS use.  You should never
care what they are.

> Alternatively: How can I tag ALL current files of a project with the
> same revision number?

You said the magic word: tag.  You should *tag* the files with a
meaningful label and ignore the revision numbers.  For example:

	cvs tag Rev_1_7
-- 
Larry Jones

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