Re: CVS "Search" function?

[Todd Denniston]

Hamilton, Fred wrote, On 09/24/2008 12:39 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I asked an employee (no longer with the company) to reorganize his
> portion of the CVS tree for a project he was working on (it was
> disorganized, mislabeled, there were multiple copies of the same
> project, and you basically couldn't find anything).  It turns out he
> apparently deleted all the files in the project, reorganized a copy of a
> subset of the files, and checked those copies back in.  We were able to
> restore most of the files that *weren't* his, but I'm trying to find the
> previous versions of some of the files that *were* his.  
>
> The exact example is that I wrote some code that was checked in to CVS
> by me.  He then deleted all that code, checked it in as new at a new
> location under his name, modified my code, and, of course, there are now
> 5 different versions of this project.
>
> So what I would ideally like to do is search for all the versions of a
> certain filename, wherever it is, deleted or not, that were checked in
> by me.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Is there a hard way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred

I think we need a bit more information.
When you say "He then deleted all that code" do you mean:
A) he logged into the cvs server (or accessed the NFS drive) an executed `rm 
important/code/`.
or
B) in his sandbox he executed
`cvs remove -f important/code;cvs commit -m "hurt these guys"`. ????

You do have backups of the repository prior to his changes, RIGHT????

To answer the two questions at the end of your email: maybe, probably. :)


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