Re: undoing a commit after other changes have been made

[Dennis Jones]

"Spiro Trikaliotis" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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>>    For example: if I found that this fix-pack was the only change made on
>>    the 20th, then I'd do something
>>      cvs co mymodule  ;  cd mymodule
>>      cvs merge -j 20070120 -j 20070119
>
> The only thing: cvs does not know merge. Additionally, you cannot use
> dates in -j operation.

Generally speaking, you are correct.  However, I recently discovered in 
Cedarqvist (v1.11), section A.16.2, that dates *can optionally* be used with 
the -j switch *if* the tag being referenced refers to a branch.  I did a 
simple test of this the other day when replying to a question about merging 
with dates last week (see: "Merging using a date"), and it worked.

Of course, as you said, a better solution (which works whether or not you're 
on a branch) is to create tags based on the required dates, and then use 
those tags in the merge operation.

- Dennis