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Stupid CVS tricks

I’m doing coding on my current project, and am getting acquainted with CVS from a developer’s point of view. So, I had my first CVS mishap this morning, where I had to pull out an old version of a file and make it current. Sticky tags, of course, get in the way. Here’s a set of instructions on how to make an old revision the current one.

Basically:

  • Remove a version: cvs admin -o1.3 test (don’t have the option to merge changes)

  • Check out old version: cvs update -r1.2 test

  • Revert to the most recent version: cvs update -A test

  • Making the old version the most recent:

    mv test test.old
    cvs update -A test
    mv test.old test
    cvs commit -m “reverting to old” test

    • Since I’m making a CVS tricks post, here’s some bits of old documentation I had scattered around:

  • importing a directory tree into CVS

    • In the directory above the tree you want to import, run: “cvs import ModuleName vendor_tag release-tag” where ModuleName is the module you want to check into, etc.

  • Master documentation: found at CVSHome.org

  • A primer on tags and branches: found at http://www.psc.edu/~semke/cvs_branches.html

    • Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 2:46 pm and is filed under Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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