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RE: how to roll-back whole commit operation
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Zieg, Mark |
Subject: |
RE: how to roll-back whole commit operation |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:40:31 -0400 |
In general, this is why you apply a tag to the project before you do a huge
(150-file) commit :-) Makes it really easy to "cvs update -j before_big_commit
-j after_big_commit"...
However, if you know WHEN you did the big commit (via "cvs log", etc), then you
can retroactively insert that "geez-I-wish-I'd-done-this-at-the-time"
historical tag.
That is, if you did the big commit on September 15 at 3pm, then I think you can
insert a historical tag just prior to the commit with:
$ cvs tag -D "2003/09/15 14:55" before_big_commit
Then you can apply a tag to your current tree with:
$ cvs tag after_big_commit
Then you should be able to rollback the changes:
$ cvs update -j before_big_commit -j after_big_commit
Finally, you can commit the "rolled-back" tree:
$ cvs commit -m "rolled back big commit"
And then tag after the rollback, just to give yourself a handy reference for
next time:
$ cvs tag after_big_rollback
(Note: I haven't checked the syntax on any of this, and am going from memory...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Dickson, Craig [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:59 PM
To: CVS List (E-mail)
Subject: how to roll-back whole commit operation
What is the easiest way to roll-back a commit operation? I know when the commit
happened and nothing has changed on that branch since the commit happened? I
could use update with 2 -j options, but there is over 150 changes in the
commit, so I would have to do it once for each file if I understand it
correctly since they all have difference revision numbers. Is there are way to
update my working directory "backwards" so to speak?