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Re: revision control


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: revision control
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:26:25 -0400

If both revisions are tagged you don't have to do this a file at a time.
You could try merging by date as well.

    http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_5.html#SEC62

And make sure you don't have any work which hasn't been checked in and which
hasn't been backed up in there before you start guessing.

Derek

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Aldo Longhi wrote:

> >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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