Re: Checking out an Intermediate version into the working directory

[Ted Stern]

On 18 Jan 2006 at 10:31 UTC-0800, William wrote:

> Let's say I have created versions 1.1, 1.2., 1.3, and 1.4 of filename.txt.
>
> I am currently working with version 1.4; but want to revert to version
> 1.2.  How do I check out the version 1.2 file?
>
> is it:
>
> cvs checkout -r 1.2 filename.txt
>
> ?

  cvs update -j 1.4 -j 1.2 filename.txt

I.e., merge in reverse.  Lots of other ways, for example:

  cvs update -r 1.2 -p filename.txt > filename.txt~1.2~

then copy as appropriate

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