Re: cvs roll back utility

[Matthew Rich]

Where do you find this commitid?
ALso is there something similar to this for an update?  I.e. someone updated an 
existing tree in error.  Is there a way to return to the previous tree?  Just 
wondering.

----- Original Message ----
From: Arthur Barrett <address@hidden>
To: Ravindra Rathi <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:23:06 AM
Subject: RE: cvs roll back utility

Rathi,

>      Recently I wanted to roll back bunch of files to 
> previous CVS revision.
> Since there is no quick way to do it, I did a quick search on 

CVSNT (GPL, unix/windows/etc) introduced the conecpt of a 'commit id' a
unique number for each commit - you can use this to 'rollback' to the
previous revision.

Eg (something like):
cvs update -j @commitid -j "<@commitid" filename or modulename

I believe that CVS 1.12 has backported some or all of this
functionality, but you'll have to check the manual.

Regards,


Arthur