Re: Recovering from Attic

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Aaron Jackson <address@hidden> writes:

> Ok, if there is a directory in a project that had three files in it
> and they were all removed to the attic with cvs rm at different times
> and you want to recover all three files (say 3 could be 100+ files in
> some cases) but they all have different versions on them. How could
> you check the version just before the version that was marked as dead
> and moved to the attic? I did manage to recover something that had
> been tagged, but in this case many of the files would not be tagged in
> a version.

One method is to checkout by datestamp and then tag files that you see
and like with some tag (say recovery-tag), then use that tag to do the
recovery:

  cvs update -A
  cvs update -jHEAD -jrecovery-tag

There are other ways to get there, but most folks have some conception
of the time when a particular file was okay. If not, then use cvs2cl or
some other logging tool to get the dates into a file for you to consult.

        -- Mark
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