Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 12025:124734dc7c66
Explain why 'cvs admin' should only be used on the last revision of a file.
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:46:03 +0000 |
| parents | f7980032d9ca |
| children | 252b9e2f7417 |
| files | DOCS/tech/cvs-howto.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/tech/cvs-howto.txt Mon Mar 15 01:37:36 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/tech/cvs-howto.txt Mon Mar 15 01:46:03 2004 +0000 @@ -95,13 +95,19 @@ 9. Reverting broken commits In case you committed something really broken and wish to undo it completely, - you can use the 'cvs admin -o' command. Assuming that 1.123 is the latest - version of the file and the one you want to remove + you can use the 'cvs admin -o' command, which removes entries from the + revision history of a file. For the corner case that you remove the last + revision this amounts to reverting a commit. + + Assuming that 1.123 is the last revision cvs -z3 admin -o1.123 filename - Do NOT do this unless you really know what you are doing and the version you - are removing is the last version, e.g. there were no commits after yours. + will remove revision 1.123, thus reverting the file back to revision 1.122. + + ONLY use this command to delete the LAST revision of a file. Removing other + revisions will NOT undo the changes from that revision in the last revision + and leave holes in the revision history. Contact A'rpi <arpi@thot.banki.hu> if you have technical problems with the CVS