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Re: How can I Recover from Erroneous Checkins?
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Laird Nelson |
Subject: |
Re: How can I Recover from Erroneous Checkins? |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 09:53:10 -0500 |
Deja User wrote:
> I know the cvs way is to keep the wrong version in the history and checkin
> the right one on top. But in my case this approach I need to just remove the
> wrong head revisions as if they were never there otherwise my revision
> hitstory ends up being littered with erroneous checkings and then checkings
> that are fixes to those checkins.
Is there any particular problem with that? So there are some erroneous
versions in a file's history. So what? Tag them with DO_NOT_USE or
something similar. Check in early, often, broken, whatever: a version
control system exists to track history, not pristine working copies of
software.
If you're still determined for some reason, you can use the cvs admin -o
command, as in:
cvs admin -o1.3 file.txt
Note that just about any time you use the admin subcommand you're doing
something that the authors left out of cvs for a reason.
Cheers,
Laird
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