A problem I encounter quite often among my CVS users is when
they do a massive erroneous checkin (cvs ci -m "some comment" .) and then need to roll
back. (For instance by being in the wrong directory at the time of checkins) My users
simultaneously work on several different projects so that's why this happens a lot.
Is there are a good easy way to do this? Could anyone share any ideas? Basically what
I am looking for is a command like "REMOVE ALL THE REVISIONS USER X HAS DONE IN THE
LAST 5 MIN FROM EVERYWHERE). The way I have been doing it is extremely painful and
described below,
a) see which files were revised in the repository in the last 10 min (cvs log -D) by
this user
b) checkout the entire project.
c) For each file cd into the subdir of the project where the file resides and do "cvs
update -p -r previous_rev > file_name" then try to check in this result of overwriting
with -p. (This is the painful step since the erroneous checking was often done at the
top of the project and the offending files are scattered all over)
I know the cvs way is to keep the wrong version in the history and checkin the right
one on top. But in my case this approach I need to just remove the wrong head
revisions as if they were never there otherwise my revision hitstory ends up being
littered with erroneous checkings and then checkings that are fixes to those checkins.
Should I use rcs -o ? Should I do it using rcs or cvs admin? Can anyone tell me what
would be a safe way to do what I want?
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