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Re: How do you get back a file after it has been "cvs remove"'d?
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: How do you get back a file after it has been "cvs remove"'d? |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:15:56 -0500 (EST) |
Stephen Carville writes:
>
> This is probably not the best way to do it, but when I had to recover some
> files that were 'inadvertenely deleted, I logged onto the server, located the
> files in the "Attic", copied them to their regular directory, and then
> changed
>
> "state dead;" to "state Exp;"
No, that's not the best way to do it. In fact, it's probably the worst
way possible. It's akin to cutting a hole through the side of your
house to get in rather than using the door. You undo a removal the same
way you undo any other change -- either brute force:
cvs up -r1.7 -p myfile >myfile
cvs add myfile
or with a merge:
cvs up -j1.8 -j1.7 myfile
(Assuming that the current dead revision is 1.8 and thus the revision
you want to resurrect is 1.7.)
-Larry Jones
No one can prove I did that!! -- Calvin