Re: Lost branch need help!!

[Dan . Crea]

Hello Mark:

As I found out, that is exactly what happened.  The wrong branch name was
given during a delete.  So what I am thinking about doing to recover is
the following:

I have found only 4 files are different between the head and the delete
branch.  I was planning on doing a checkout of the head and then update
these 4 files into my working directory using the revisions that where on
the branch.   Then I can rebranch and this should give me what was on the
delete branch.

Will this work?

Thanks





"Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden>
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10/24/2003 10:37 AM


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address@hidden writes:

> I need some serious help...

I hope you have a backup of your repository...

> I seem to have lost a branch in CVS.  More specifically, I still seem to

> have the branch, as I can do a checkout of the branch, but all the files

> that were once part of the branch are now gone.
>
> I still have all our files on the head and if I use WinCVS to graph the
> files I get something like this:
>
> Foo.cpp-----1.1
>                     1.2
>                     1.3--------------1.3.2.1
>  1.3.2.2------------------b_development
>                                             b_AXA
>
> What I should have however is:
>
> Foo.cpp-----1.1
>                     1.2
>                     1.3--------------b_ALM
>                                             1.3.2.1
>  1.3.2.2------------------b_development
>                                             b_AXA
>
> The branch b_ALM is missing and the branch revision 1.3.2.1 appears to
be
> hanging there with out a branch.
>
> I have tried looking at the logs and history but I don't seem to see
> anything that tells me what happened.  In the history I don't even show
> the branch.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can find out what happened and who did it?  I
> don't really know where to start.  Also, more importantly how can I
> recover from this and get back the missing files?

It would seem that someone did a 'cvs tag -d b_ALM' on your repository
(depending on the version of your cvs the user may also have needed to
add the -B switch if it is a more recent version of cvs).

There is no simple way to go back and re-install the tag once all memory
of it has been erased. If you have a backup of your repository, then you
can find out what value was in each ,v file for b_ALM and go back and
use the cvs admin command to re-insert the tag that is needed.

                 Good luck,
                 -- Mark
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