Re: Recovering from Attic

[Jim Hyslop]

Aaron Jackson wrote:
> Ok, if there is a directory in a project that had three files in it and 
> they were all removed to the attic with cvs rm at different times and 
> you want to recover all three files (say 3 could be 100+ files in some 
> cases) but they all have different versions on them. How could you check 
> the version just before the version that was marked as dead and moved to 
> the attic? I did manage to recover something that had been tagged, but 
> in this case many of the files would not be tagged in a version.

If there are many files, then I think you'll have to write a script to 
do this:
- create a dummy file with the correct name
- issue a 'cvs add' and captures the output of the add command, e.g.:

cvs add: Re-adding file `test.txt' (in place of dead revision 1.3).

- parse the above message to find the dead revision number
- subtract 1 to get the last good revision number
- issue the command
cvs update -p -r[rev number] filename>filename

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Jim