unedit without edit

[Richard Wesley]

Suppose someone is working off line and does the following:

- Unlock and edit some files;
- Connect to the server and do a cvs update
- Decide to throw out one of the sets of file changes and revert to the last
version.

What is the command sequence for doing this?  If the user had done a 
cvs edit on the file originally, then cvs unedit would presumably do 
what they wanted, but in the scenario I just described, they cannot 
do an unedit because they never did an edit.  It also appears that 
doing the edit, followed by an unedit does not have the desired 
result.

Throwing out the file and just doing a cvs update on the file is 
probably not a good idea because a newer version may have been 
checked in.  I suppose that they could update to the version in the 
CVS/Entries file, but that seems baroque and dangerous, and I'm not 
sure whether that would create a sticky tag.  Not to mention being 
the sort of thing that casual users should never have to do.

Is there some command for ensuring that you obtain a clean copy of 
the version of a file that you are working on besides cvs unedit?

TIA,

- rmgw

http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/

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