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Re: deleting revision

From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: deleting revision
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:58:04 -0400 (EDT) 
KK writes:
> 
>  i am trying to delete a revision from the CVS.

Why?  Deleting a revision is almost always a mistake.  It's usually a
much better idea to back out a change instead.  That is, rather than:

        cvs admin -o 1.2 Unit2.pas

it's usually better to do:

        cvs up -j1.2 -j1.1 Unit2.pas
        cvs ci -m'back out rev 1.2 changes' Unit2.pas

-Larry Jones

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