[Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to 'update' an updated archive?

[Amit Shah]

Stig Brautaset wrote:

> On May 01 2004, Amit wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> This is a very silly question, but I could find a solution to this
>> problem:
>> 
>> I have an archive that has some files in it. I delete one file. I now
>> want it back.
>> 
>> "cvs update" would get the file for me; however, "tla update" just says
>> that the tree is up-to-date (which it is). "tla changes" shows the file
>> is 'D' (deleted). How do I get this file back?
> 
>  $ touch $file
>  $ tla file-diffs $file | patch -Rp1
> 
> or
> 
>  $ cp $(tla file-find $file) .
> 
> or, if you have no other changes in the directory:
> 
>  $ tla undo [-n]

I had tried this earlier; it just gives:

$ tla undo
* linting the source tree
These explicit ids have no corresponding file:

.arch-ids/deleted_file.id

I don't have any other changes in the directory or the tree, don't know why
undo doesn't work.


Oh, okay, after doing a "touch $file" and then "tla undo", it worked.

The other two solutions also work; "touch $file" has to be done for any of
the three alternatives to work.

I guess it wasn't that silly a question after all.

Great,
Thanks.

> 
> Stig

Amit.
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