Christian Hujer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best way to make the HEAD revision of the files being the
> previous
> revision? I've read the faq, they say if the last version is 1.31, "checkout
> 1.30 and recheckin as 1.32". But I cannot imagine how to do this.
cvs update -j 1.31 -j 1.30 the_file
or
cvs update -p -r1.30 the_file > the_file
> When I try "cvs update -r 1.30 file" and then "cvs commit file" it of course
> does not work.
Because it has a sticky revision. To recover from that,
cp the_file tempfile
cvs update -A the_file
mv tempfile the_file
Any one of these three methods will give you a file with the content of
revision 1.30, ready to be committed as revision 1.32 .
--
pa at panix dot com
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