Re: resurrecting a dead revision

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <address@hidden>, Sherman Tse wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Could anyone of you tell me how I can retrieve a dead revision?  Lets say I 
>checked revision 1.1 into cvs then later decided to use "cvs remove" to 
>remove the file.  Is there anyway to retrieve this revision that I just 
>removed?

If you commited a CVS remove to revision 1.1 on the main trunk, then
you get a revision 1.2 whose state is 'dead'. You can update your
working copy to revision 1.1 to get the file back. 

To restore the file, you can do something like:

        cvs update -p -r 1.1 > file
        cvs add file
        cvs commit