RE: Best method to overwrite someone's changes?

[Christopher.Fouts]

Or maybe this...

   > cd to branchA sandbox
   > cvs up -j branchA -j tag_yesterday_branchA 
   > cvs commit


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>Subject: Best method to overwrite someone's changes?
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>I found this e-mail (below) from Derek a while back. Can I use 
>this method to revert a branch to a certain tag date? IOW,
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>   > cvs up -r branchA -j tag_yesterday_branchA -j branchA
>   > cvs commit
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>Will this revert latest branchA's code to tag_yesterday_branchA's code?
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>-chris
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>>No, you will only get conflicts if you update from within the branch.
>Fabi's
>>approach will work, except you should probably add a step to 
>delete all
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>>working files in B before copying files from A.
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>I'm telling you:
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>    cvs up -rbranchA -jbranchA -jbranchB
>    cvs commit
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>No conflicts.  No manual adding/removing.  It just works.
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>Derek
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