[TriLUG] Topic for discussion

[H. Wade Minter]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Donald Ball wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, H. Wade Minter wrote:
>
> > It's a version control system (Concurrent Versioning System, IIRC).  There
> > are several uses for it - I use it for two main things:
> >
> > 1) For version control on a software project I write.  CVS lets me track
> > back through every change to every source code file, so I can remember
> > what changed and when.  You can also use CVS to "tag" moments in time, so
> > if I want to see how my project looked at version 0.9, I can get it back
> > to that state exactly.
>
> quick question, if you don't mind - how do you go about tagging a version?

I get my working copy to where I want it to be for the tag, then I run
(from the root of the working copy):

cvs -q tag TAG_NAME

For me, it's something like

cvs -q tag Release-v1_1