Re: revision control

[Aldo Longhi]

> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Bill Shields wrote:
> > Question:  What is the best way to revert all the files back to the
> > previous individual versions that were good?
>
> $ cvs update -j <cur_vers> -j <prev_vers> <file>
> $ cvs commit <file>
>
> This only works if the latest version is the one you want to get rid
> of.  If there have been changes made since the bad versions were
> commited, then you'll have a litte more work to do...
>
> You'll have to do this for each file, or write a script to do it
> for you.
>
> Garth


What about this instead:
("foo" is the file in question)...

$ cvs up -r <good_vers> -p foo > foo
$ cvs ci foo

This will get the version that you want, overwrite
your existing local copy, then check it in as the
latest version.

- Aldo

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