RE: How do you "unupdate" a file

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 13:16:44 (-0400), Frederic Brehm wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How do you "unupdate" a file
>
> I could edit CVS/Entries by hand and replace the 1.18 with 1.17. That 
> would fix the problem, but I'm wondering if there's a cvs way to do 
> it.

No, that won't fix the problem -- it'll only make it worse.

> At 12:27 -0400 4/11/02, Rajesh Patwardhan wrote:
> >depends if you dont care for the changes at all then
> >if you want you can delete the file and then do a cvs up, old 
> >revision will be back.
> 
> No, I'll get 1.18 and I want 1.17.

I suppose you could use 'cvs diff' to get the delta you wish to remove
from your local copy of the file and then use 'patch -r' to un-apply it
from your local file.....

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