Parth venkat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) I plan to remove a few files using cvs remove and then also
> commit the changes. ( since i may need to go back or look at he
> files at some later date ) . My question is :
>
> How (which command of cvs) would get me the older versions of these
> deleted files (when i want to view them )?
This command
cvs up -p -r DESIRED_REVISION FILE
will output the contents of DESIRED_REVISION of FILE. You can
redirect it to a file or pipe it to a viewer, etc.
> or is it that every time i do a cvs update the files would come to
> my working directory and the way to avoid this would be to use cvs
> update -P so cvs does not update the deleted files in my work area.
No, it won't show up in your working directory anymore, with or
without update -P.
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