4. Revisions

For many uses of CVS, one doesn't need to worry too much about revision numbers; CVS assigns numbers such as 1.1, 1.2, and so on, and that is all one needs to know. However, some people prefer to have more knowledge and control concerning how CVS assigns revision numbers.

If one wants to keep track of a set of revisions involving more than one file, such as which revisions went into a particular release, one uses a tag, which is a symbolic revision which can be assigned to a numeric revision in each file.

4.1 Revision numbers		The meaning of a revision number
4.2 Versions, revisions and releases		Terminology used in this manual
4.3 Assigning revisions
4.4 Tags--Symbolic revisions
4.5 Specifying what to tag from the working directory		The cvs tag command
4.6 Specifying what to tag by date or revision		The cvs rtag command
4.7 Deleting, moving, and renaming tags		Adding, renaming, and deleting tags
4.8 Tagging and adding and removing files		Tags with adding and removing files
4.9 Sticky tags		Certain tags are persistent