This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
I.e., "cvs -H init" went ahead and initialized the repository, and did
not print out a usage message. Not nice.
Also added the "init" command to the list that comes out when you type
"cvs --help-commands". There is still not a word about it in the manual
page.
Yes, I am sending these fixes to the FSF.
branch number that is assigned. This is specifically to support the
local commit feature of cvsup. If one sets $CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM to
(say) 1000 then branches the local repository, the revision numbers will
look like 1.66.1000.xx. This is almost a dead-set certainty that there
will be no conflicts with version numbers. :-)
(This needs to be something more than an option to 'cvs tag' or 'cvs rtag'
as various parts of cvs "know" how to automatically branch files (eg: cvs
add). Trying to remember state is getting "Too Hard (TM)")
