From: MH <mh_n@seitung.net>
Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:31:05 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zntkgljj.fsf@seitung.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns92A4B44CB9660chrislak@216.168.3.40
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Chris wrote:
> Well, this command reverts the current buffer back to the state when
> it was last checked out. Which can be handy, but is not what I am
> looking for. Let me take another stab at explaining. I have a
> document that has gone through these changes (numbers are version
> numbers):
>
> 1.5
> Bob went to school
>
> 1.6
> Mary went home
>
> 1.7
> John went to the market
>
> 1.8
> Chris discovers emacs (and then fire)
>
>
> I open the document (1.8) and discover that I need to go back to
> version 1.6. How best to do this? I can open 1.6 up using the
> show-other-version command, but then I have to select everything in
> the old display document and paste it "over" the new document. It
> just seemed to me there must be a better way of going back more than
> one revision.
>
> Maybe I am just missing something really stupid... or maybe this is
> just not needed very often. But the ability to revert back more than
> one version seems very useful to me.
-
vc-diff
vc-merge ...
ediff-revision
see "Version Control" in the emacs info entry and ediff, of course
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-12 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-11 8:03 RCS revert to previous version Chris
2002-10-11 11:00 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-10-11 16:42 ` Chris
2002-10-11 17:54 ` Jhair Tocancipa Triana
2002-10-12 1:44 ` Chris
2002-10-12 7:31 ` MH [this message]
2002-10-12 9:51 ` Jhair Tocancipa Triana
2002-10-13 2:41 ` Chris
2002-10-12 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-13 2:37 ` Chris
2002-10-13 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-14 7:07 ` Chris
2002-10-14 10:48 ` Lee Sau Dan
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