swift 08/05/20 20:34:55 Modified: cvs-tutorial.xml Log: Add section on retrieving older version
Revision Changes Path 1.20 xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml?rev=1.20&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml?rev=1.20&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml?r1=1.19&r2=1.20 Index: cvs-tutorial.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml,v retrieving revision 1.19 retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 --- cvs-tutorial.xml 19 May 2008 19:45:31 -0000 1.19 +++ cvs-tutorial.xml 20 May 2008 20:34:55 -0000 1.20 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml,v 1.19 2008/05/19 19:45:31 swift Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml,v 1.20 2008/05/20 20:34:55 swift Exp $ --> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ <author title="Author"> <mail link="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Daniel Robbins</mail> </author> - <author title="Editor"> <mail link="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Xavier Neys</mail> </author> @@ -25,8 +24,8 @@ tutorial is for you. </abstract> -<version>1.8</version> -<date>2005-05-23</date> +<version>1.9</version> +<date>2008-05-20</date> <chapter> <title>Introduction</title> @@ -894,6 +893,30 @@ </body> </section> <section> +<title>Retrieving an older version</title> +<body> + +<p> +CVS wouldn't be a good versioning system if you can't retrieve older versions +from the repository. You can pull back files based on a specific date, but of +course also on the revision number. The next example pulls back revision 1.202 +of <path>filename</path> and overwrites the current <path>filename</path> with +this version: +</p> + +<pre caption="Retrieving a file based on the revision number"> +$ <i>cvs update -p -r 1.202 filename > filename</i> +</pre> + +<p> +If you want to pull back files based on their date, use the <c>-D</c> argument. +You can use entire date/timestamps, but also relative names such as +<e>yesterday</e> or <e>last week</e>. +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> <title>Complete!</title> <body> -- [email protected] mailing list
