Re: Discarding changes from one revision and committing changes...

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:41:27AM -0500, Larry Jones wrote:
> ADFH writes:
> > 
> > If X is at version 1.21, and I want to go to version 1.20, make some
> > changes, and then commit the file back as 1.22, how do I go about it?
> 
>       cvs up -A file              # get the current revision of the file
>       cvs up -j1.21 -j1.20 file   # back out the unwanted changes

To which I would add:
        cvs ci file                 # commit the back-out, *before* making the 
new changes

>       vi file                     # make whatever other changes you want
>       cvs ci file                 # check it in

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