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Re: Help with CVS (Was: Conditionals in CVS Automake)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:26:59PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: Could someone teach me how to go backward with CVS and pull out
: revision n-1? I'm quite lost with this issue, and I'd like to use CVS
: to have at least an idea of _when_ it started to fail. I know how to
: do that with PRCS, but have no idea about CVS.
Select a file revision from the "cvs log <file>" dump, and check it out
with "cvs update -r 1.325 <file>". The revision becomes sticky - you
release the glue and get the latest again with "cvs update -A <file>".
Lars J