RE: How to restore Attic files in CVS - cannot open CVS/Entries

[Trinh, An]

Hi Larry,

Thank you very much for your help!  It works.  To summarize here are the
commands I've executed to restore a dead version in the Attic.

boc01% pwd
/home/c62ip74/APRT
boc01% /usr/local/bin/cvs -d /opt/prodcvs checkout -d /home/c62ip74/APRT
eai/APRT
cvs checkout: Updating /home/c62ip74/APRT
boc01%
boc01% /usr/local/bin/cvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.1 EA_APRT_LOAD.esql
U EA_APRT_LOAD.esql 
boc01% /usr/local/bin/cvs commit -m "An restored dead version"
cvs commit: Examining .
cvs commit: warning: expected /opt/prodcvs/eai/APRT/EA_APRT_LOAD.esql,v
to be in Attic
Checking in EA_APRT_LOAD.esql;
/opt/prodcvs/eai/APRT/EA_APRT_LOAD.esql,v  <--  EA_APRT_LOAD.esql
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2

I do see the new version from the CVS GUI now.
Again, thank you very much for your time and your valuable advice on
this.

Thank you Larry,
An.

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:57 PM
To: Trinh, An
Cc: Peter Toft; Jim Hyslop; address@hidden
Subject: Re: How to restore Attic files in CVS - cannot open CVS/Entries

Trinh, An writes:
> boc01%
> boc01% /usr/local/bin/cvs -d /opt/prodcvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.1 
> EA_APRT_LOAD.esql,v cvs update: nothing known about 
> EA_APRT_LOAD.esql,v

The ,v files are repository files, the working files do not have that
suffix.  So, you want:

        /usr/local/bin/cvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.1 EA_APRT_LOAD.esql

(There's no need for the -d, CVS remembers it from the checkout.)
--
Larry Jones

Apparently I was misinformed. -- Calvin


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