Re: [Fwd: Backrevving a file]

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:53:32PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
>       I have a file which is, say, rev 1.11.  I would like to load the rev 
> 1.10 
> version of the file and start working from  there.  Anyone know how to do 
> this?

cvs update -C file.c            # Discard any uncommitted changes
cvs update -j1.11 -j1.10 file.c # This gets 1.10 into your sandbox
cvs commit file.c               # Done

Note the odd-looking, but correct, order of the -j's.

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