Re: Using CVS for revision control

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There is one additional point to bring up concerning Perl and CVS; the actual versioning itself. Perl's $VERSION variable assumes that version 5.101 is just a small update on 5.1 -- CVS believes that they are 100 revisions apart! Things get even more confusing when Perl claims that 5.2 is more recent than 5.101 This can lead to Wacky Hijinks^(tm) if you set the $VERSION variable in your program based directly on CVS' $Revision$ tag. You have been warned.

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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Re: Re: Using CVS for revision control by Joost (Canon) on Aug 06, 2002 at 11:41 UTC
I usually do something like `$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d",q$Revision: 1.15 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;` [download] That will give a $VERSION = '1.015' for $Revision 1.15 `-- Joost downtime n. The period during which a system is error-free and immune from user input.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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