[ cleaning out an mbox and ran into this; not trimming the message since this is so old... ]
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:10:22AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/Attic/install-tpf.html?hideattic=0 > > Remembering that we keep docs in httpd-docs-1.3, and that this tree > *should* have been empty of 'live' files, there was something really > troubling in the Apache 1.3 tree. > > That file, install-tpf.html, was resurrected from the Attic about 7 months > after we liquidated the apache-1.3 copies of htdocs. It was again > revised 11 months ago. > > Since it was revised, cvs rtag was tagging that file, as a live file, because > it didn't actually contain the deleted status. So this file was tagged (but > never distributed) with the 1.3.25, .26 and .27 files. > > Apparently someone simply 'moved' install-tpf.html,v from > htdocs/manual/ straight into htdocs/manual/Attic/, which doesn't work. > > Now that I have removed the APACHE_1_3_25, _26 and _27 tags, cvs > checkouts should be clean once again. But anyone checking out by > date between 3/12/2001 and today would get this oddball file mucking > up their attempt to check out httpd-docs-1.3 into the same tree. > > Does anyone have a suggestion of how to correctly axe rev 1.11, 1.12 > and 1.13 so that we return to the 1.10 revision removed on 7/15/2000? > I'm wondering if there is a cvs admin option to do so, but it's well beyond > my ken and karma. You can mark those revisions as "dead". It would be something like: $ cvs admin -s dead:1.11 install-tpf.html $ cvs admin -s dead:1.12 install-tpf.html $ cvs admin -s dead:1.13 install-tpf.html That should do the trick. When using 'cvs admin', it isn't a bad idea to make a backup of the ,v file just in case; a little flub-fingering can really mess up the file. (of course, I happen to know a version control system that doesn't allow people to move ,v files straight out of the Attic ... :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/