1<div id="Versions-revisions-releases"></div> 2<div class="header"> 3<p> 4Next: [[cvs: Assigning revisions#Assigning revisions|Assigning revisions]], Previous: [[cvs: Revision numbers#Revision numbers|Revision numbers]], Up: [[cvs: Revisions#Revisions|Revisions]] |[[cvs: Index#SEC_Contents|Contents]]||[[cvs: Index#Index|Index]]|</p> 5</div> 6 7---- 8 9<div id="Versions_002c-revisions-and-releases"></div> 10=== Versions, revisions and releases === 11<div id="index-Revisions_002c-versions-and-releases"></div> 12<div id="index-Versions_002c-revisions-and-releases"></div> 13<div id="index-Releases_002c-revisions-and-versions"></div> 14 15A file can have several versions, as described above. 16Likewise, a software product can have several versions. 17A software product is often given a version number such 18as ‘<code>4.1.1</code>’. 19 20Versions in the first sense are called <em>revisions</em> 21in this document, and versions in the second sense are 22called <em>releases</em>. To avoid confusion, the word 23<em>version</em> is almost never used in this document. 24 25This document was generated on <i>a sunny day</i> using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ <i>texi2html</i>]. 26