recovery of erroneously committed file

2000-09-14 Thread Niall Hosiene 

I have accidentally checked in a Microsoft Word format file as a normal text 
file, instead of binary.
Can I recover this file in its original form, or is it permanently trashed?

We use CVS in client/server, with NT4 clients, and server on HP-UX 11.  CVS 
version 1.10.5.

Niall

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RE: recovery of erroneously committed file

2000-09-14 Thread Guus Leeuw 

  I have accidentally checked in a Microsoft Word format file 
  as a normal text 
  file, instead of binary.
  Can I recover this file in its original form, or is it 
  permanently trashed?

Two options come to mind:
1) If your file was the first version, get someone to delete the
   corresponding Repository file, go back to the drawing board
   and start from scratch.
2) If not, move the file out of your local sandbox, update the
   previous version (the one just before you comittied), put your
   copy over it, execute cvs admin -kb on your local file and
   commit it.

Guus