Hi Oliver

Olivier Mascia wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What's that "Save the whales, feed the hungry, and free the sources" nearly
> everywhere (in each source I mean) in the files available on CVS
> (firebirdashes project on SourceForge) ?
>

When you put the source in is asks you for an initial comment. There used to
be a
tag "Save the whale, feed to poor, and free the mallocs". Since noone usually
reads
these tags and they usually remain embedded deep in the system available only
to
the extreme CVS user.

I was however forgetting about the popular usage of the new WebCVS interface,
where it really rubs it into your face.

I'll have a look at the admin functions and see if it can be changed.

>
> I'm new to CVS, though, was such a branching of each and every source really
> needed for some reason not obvious to me ?
>

Most of the files are currently unchanged, the version tags that are there have
more to do with identifying the initial version of the source that was checked
in.

As changes are made to each file and you will see additional version
information appear in the Web CVS interface (Try looking for some files with
versions numbers of 1.2 or 1.3 those sorts of things).

The initial version of the file can be retrieved either by tag or date, and all
the changes made to a file can also be retrieved.

Regards

Mark