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Re: Getting a file that was removed in repository back?


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Getting a file that was removed in repository back?
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:10:29 -0400 (EDT)

Albin Takami writes:
> 
> Now in your book (Open Source Development With CVS chapter: What Happens
> When You Remove A File), you mention that "This means that if you want to
> restore a removed file, you can't just take it out of the Attic/ and put it
> back into the project. Instead, you have to do something like this in a
> working copy...."
> If I don't have a working copy, meaning I don't have a checked out copy of
> that file, how do I then get it back/restored?

You don't need a checked out copy of the *file*, you need a checked out
copy of the *directory* that contains (or used to contain) it.  See the
end of: <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_5.html#SEC62>.

-Larry Jones

Hmph. -- Calvin




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