Re: Delete file / undelete, problems

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:12:49PM -0500, Ship, Howard wrote:
> It was deleted in 1.10, and back in 1.11.
> 
> It was a while back, don't know if I did it "correctly".

Looks as though you did, judging by this log excerpt:

> revision 1.13
> date: 2001/11/10 21:42:19;  author: hship;  state: Exp;  lines: +58 -60
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^

> A summary of
> how to do it correctly would be useful.  I believe I did 
>       cvs co -r1.9 ...

Probably something like:
        cvs update -p -r1.9 ILifecycle.java >ILifecycle.java

>       cvs add ...
>       cvs commit

I believe you can also do something like:
        cvs update -j1.10 -j1.9 ILifecycle.java
        cvs commit

i.e. the first -j names the dead revision; the second names its
*predecessor*.

> Looks like the current releases are "Exp".  So, you thik I should ask
> SourceForge to move it out of the attic?

Yup.  Or here's a kludgy way do it yourself, without repo access:
        #
        # Delete the file again; this will fix up the inconsistency
        # in the repo
        #
        cvs update ILifecycle.java      # Force it back into the sandbox
        cvs rm -f ILifecycle.java
        cvs commit                      # Should work, even though the ,v
                                        # file isn't where it it's
                                        # supposed to be.
        #
        # At this point, the ,v file is still in the Attic, but with a
        # "dead" revision.  Thus the following will work.
        #
        # Try again to resurrect the file; this should do what the
        # previous attempt didn't: move the ,v file out of the Attic.
        #
        cvs update -j1.15 -j1.14 ILifecycle.java        # See below
        cvs commit

For the second update, the -j values should be the "dead" revision you
just created and its *predecessor*, respectively.

Good luck.

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