Re: resurrecting a dead revision

[Larry Jones]

Sherman Tse writes:
> 
> Could anyone of you tell me how I can retrieve a dead revision?  Lets say I 
> checked revision 1.1 into cvs then later decided to use "cvs remove" to 
> remove the file.  Is there anyway to retrieve this revision that I just 
> removed?

"Retrieve" as in just look at it or as in undo the removal?  The first
is easily done with update (with or without -p as you prefer) -- just
give it an explicit (non-dead) revision number.  If you don't know what
revision number you want, you can use log to list all the revisions, you
just have to give it an explicit file name.  If you want to undo the
removal, use update -j to remove the removal.  For example, if the dead
revision is 1.4, do:

        cvs update -j1.4 -j1.3 file.dat
        cvs ci -m'resurrect' file.dat

-Larry Jones

I don't think math is a science, I think it's a religion. -- Calvin