RE: Recovering from Attic

[Aaron Jackson]

Ok, if there is a directory in a project that had three files in it and 
they were all removed to the attic with cvs rm at different times and you 
want to recover all three files (say 3 could be 100+ files in some cases) 
but they all have different versions on them. How could you check the 
version just before the version that was marked as dead and moved to the 
attic? I did manage to recover something that had been tagged, but in this 
case many of the files would not be tagged in a version.

Thanks,
Yolan

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Rod Macpherson wrote:

> Directories are never removed in CVS so "recovery" is required. I'm
> somewhat confused about your objective. If you want to recover modules
> (and of course the content) make sure you have a tagging policy that
> works for you. You can then "restore" using a checkout and if necessary
> check it back in (after you remove the sticky tags with update -A).
> Joining is used to rewind changes to the current branch or trunk one
> file at a time. It can also be used to apply changes from one branch to
> another. I don't think "recovery" is the intended use since CVS tags do
> that for you.
>
>
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> Subject: Recovering from Attic
>
> I'm new to CVS and have what I hope to be a pretty simple question, if
> you
> can recommend any reading materials on it as well I'd be grateful.
>
> Is there a way to recover an entire directory with all of it's contents
> and subdirectories? Right now I know how to recover individual copies of
>
> files with cvs up -j [dead vers] -j [old vers] [filename]. And to
> restore
> directories with update -d -R [dirname].
>
> Thanks,
> Yolan
>
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