Re: recover from a deleted branch

[Jim Hyslop]

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DHARNA, AJAY [AG/1000] wrote:
> cvs -z9 tag -d -B branch_name

Hmmm... well, I don't know if there's an easier way to do it, but one 
way you can do this is to use the cvs admin -n command. Unfortunately, 
you will have to issue the command on each individual file, and specify 
the numeric revision on which the branch was based.

The command syntax will be:

cvs admin -nbranch_name:[base revision #] filename

example:

cvs admin -nbranch_name:1.1.2 hello.c
cvs admin -nbranch_name:1.4.4 afile.c

Note that the base revision number has an odd number of fields.

The base revision can be obtained from a 'cvs log' command.

Note that all traces of the branch will be completely lost if there were 
no check-ins on that branch for a particular file.

If the tags were deleted fairly recently, it may be easier to restore 
your latest files from your daily backup.

--
Jim