[Koha-devel] Reverting to previous versions in CVS

[MJ Ray]

"Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
> I recently had a heck of a time working with Savannah's CVS to get it
> to allow me to revert a version of a file to a previous one. Here's
> how I eventually got it to work:
>
> $ cvs update -j 1.3.2.14 -j 1.3.2.15 search.pl [...]

I think those -j flags are backwards for a revert.  The manual says:

  -jREVISION
     With two -j options, merge changes from the revision specified
     with the first -j option to the revision specified with the
     second -j option, into the working directory.

In the example above, 1.3.2.15 already contains all changes from
1.3.2.14, so that's a no-op.

If, instead, one does
  cvs update -j 1.3.2.15 -j 1.3.2.14 search.pl
  cvs commit -m 'revert' search.pl
then the changes are in 1.3.2.15 are reverted and 1.3.2.14 recommitted.

[...]
> Ahem ... we need a new revisioning system :-)

Yes (git!), but not for this reason.

Hope that helps,
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