Re: how to undo import

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> I'm trying (for the first time) to track a large 3rd party distribution.
> So of course I screwed it up: I unzip'ed the distribution in the working
> directory itself and then imported it, which resulted in all the CVS
> subdirectories being imported into the repository.  Further, I had
> committed a local change to a few files (including some binary files) in
> the original distribution, so the import complained about conflicts and
> I followed its advice to checkout the original version of the
> distribution.
>
> I want to undo all of that.  I don't want any record of the erroneous
> import in the repository.  How?

Should I infer from the complete lack of responses over the last 5 days
that my only option is to delete the distribution directory in the 
repository itself, and start over with the current version?

> Here's exactly what I did:
>
> cd ~/public/3rdParty/java/saxon
>
> unzip /tmp/saxonb8-4.zip

Note that the Saxon distribution does not adhere to convention: its
.zip file includes the distribution files and subdirectories at the top
level, not within a ./saxonb8-4 directory.

> cvs import -ko -m "Import of Saxon-B 8.4" \
> public/3rdParty/java/saxon SOURCEFORGE_DIST SAXON_B_8_4
>
> cvs checkout -jSAXON_B_8_3 -jSAXON_B_8_4 public/3rdParty/java/saxon

Thanks,
--
Kevin Rodgers