RE: how to roll-back whole commit operation

[Zieg, Mark]

In general, this is why you apply a tag to the project before you do a huge (150-file) 
commit :-)  Makes it really easy to "cvs update -j before_big_commit -j 
after_big_commit"...

However, if you know WHEN you did the big commit (via "cvs log", etc), then you can 
retroactively insert that "geez-I-wish-I'd-done-this-at-the-time" historical tag.

That is, if you did the big commit on September 15 at 3pm, then I think you can insert 
a historical tag just prior to the commit with:

   $ cvs tag -D "2003/09/15 14:55" before_big_commit

Then you can apply a tag to your current tree with:

   $ cvs tag after_big_commit

Then you should be able to rollback the changes:

   $ cvs update -j before_big_commit -j after_big_commit

Finally, you can commit the "rolled-back" tree:

   $ cvs commit -m "rolled back big commit"

And then tag after the rollback, just to give yourself a handy reference for next time:

   $ cvs tag after_big_rollback

(Note: I haven't checked the syntax on any of this, and am going from memory...)


-Original Message-
From: Dickson, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:59 PM
To: CVS List (E-mail)
Subject: how to roll-back whole commit operation


What is the easiest way to roll-back a commit operation? I know when the commit 
happened and nothing has changed on that branch since the commit happened? I could use 
update with 2 -j options, but there is over 150 changes in the commit, so I would have 
to do it once for each file if I understand it correctly since they all have 
difference revision numbers. Is there are way to update my working directory 
"backwards" so to speak?


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Re: how to roll-back whole commit operation

[Larry Jones]

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> What is the easiest way to roll-back a commit operation? I know when the
> commit happened and nothing has changed on that branch since the commit
> happened? I could use update with 2 -j options, but there is over 150
> changes in the commit, so I would have to do it once for each file if I
> understand it correctly since they all have difference revision numbers.

Probably the easiest thing to do is to temporarily tag the revisions you
want to revert to then update with two -j options.  Something like:

$ cvs update -rbranch -D'yesterday'
$ cvs tag temptag
$ cvs update -rbranch
$ cvs update -jbranch -jtemptag
$ cvs commit -m'revert'
$ cvs tag -d temptag

-Larry Jones

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