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Tagging / Releases

Each file in cvs has a version number.
However, it is often useful to give a symbolic name to all the files at once.

$ cvs tag version_1_0

will attach the tag "version_1_0" to all the files in the current directory.

file1   file2   file3   file4   
                1.1
                1.2
                1.3     1.1
        1.1     1.4     1.2
1.1 --- 1.2 --- 1.5 --- 1.3 <-- version_1_0
1.2     1.3     1.6
1.3

Checking out a specific version

$ cvs checkout -r version_1_0 hello

will checkout a copy of the 1.0 version of the hello module.