Thanks to everyone for the great information on how to
handle rollbacks.
--- Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Cornellious Mann wrote:
> >Is there a concept of rollback in CVS? What is the
> >best practice for removing a change that is checked
> >in, but is not a good change? Thanks.
>
> The concept of rollback is flawed in the context of
> a truly concurrent
> versioning system. By the time you decide that the
> change is bad,
> someone may have tagged it with a release, or
> started a branch at
> that point and so on. Rolling back would be a
> destructive operation
> that could corrupt the structure of the repository.
>
> Instead, what you must do is simply to undo your
> edits, and then
> commit a new version. CVS can help you undo your
> edits as a reverse
> merge operation. For example, if the mistaken
> revision is 1.18, you
> can apply a reverse patch from 1.18 to 1.17 to your
> working copy:
>
> cvs update -j 1.18 -j 1.17 <filename>
>
> This will work even if 1.18 is no longer the latest
> version, in which
> case there may be conflicts to resolve.
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Regards,
Cornellious Mann
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