Say you've just checked in revision 1.2 of foo.txt. The way that
I would revert is:
$ cvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.1 foo.txt
$ cvs ci foo.txt
This gives you revision 1.3 which is the same as 1.1. I personally don't
like the idea of a rollback command that completely purges a particular
revision of a file for a couple of reasons. Its possible that the purge
will turn out to be a mistake. Its possible that the person that checked
in the revision won't agree that it should be rolled back, etc.
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 2:41 AM
> To: erics; info-cvs
> Cc: nick
> Subject: rollback/revert changes?
>
>
> I was thinking. Many people have told me this is a kludge. Other vc
> systems support rollback. Is support for rollback (cvs rollback
> file.c -v ?) worth diving into the cvs source? A few people
> have told me it
> would be productive, but they didn't want to touch the cvs code.
>
> ?????
>
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0500, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> >> Anyone know of a better/easier way of rolling back to a
> >> previous file version other then the following sequence:
> >>
> >> cvs update -rver file.c mv file.c file.c.older cvs update -A
> >> file.c mv file.c.older file.c cvs commit -m "reverting to prev
> >> version" file.c
>
> > Yeah: cvs update -p -rver file.c >file.c cvs commit -m
> > "reverting to prev version" file.c
>
> > Still a kludge, but a shorter one :-)
>
> > --
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> > | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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