Re: Cvs admin command question - using on files existing on branch also

[Larry Jones]

Jeeva Sarma writes:
> 
> I have a question using cvs admin command to delete a
> revision of a file. If I deleted revision 1.7 of a
> file, which also exists on a branch at that revision,
> what will be the status of that file on the branch?

A revision cannot be on multiple branches.  Revision 1.7 is on the
trunk and only on the trunk.  If you have a branch that's rooted at a
particular revision, then I suspect that removing that revision would
be a bad idea.

> Some files exist on trunk and also branch, and we want
> to rollback some revisions for these files only on the
> branch, is there anyway we can use the cvs admin
> command for to achieve this? Or should we do it
> manually?

Neither.  You should use update with two -j options to remove the
revisions in question and then commit the result as a new revision:

        <https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.16/cvs_5.html#SEC62>

-Larry Jones

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