Re: how to roll-back whole commit operation

[Larry Jones]

Dickson, Craig writes:
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> What is the easiest way to roll-back a commit operation? I know when the
> commit happened and nothing has changed on that branch since the commit
> happened? I could use update with 2 -j options, but there is over 150
> changes in the commit, so I would have to do it once for each file if I
> understand it correctly since they all have difference revision numbers.

Probably the easiest thing to do is to temporarily tag the revisions you
want to revert to then update with two -j options.  Something like:

        $ cvs update -rbranch -D'yesterday'
        $ cvs tag temptag
        $ cvs update -rbranch
        $ cvs update -jbranch -jtemptag
        $ cvs commit -m'revert'
        $ cvs tag -d temptag

-Larry Jones

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