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From: Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version
Date: 14 Oct 2002 12:48:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u1jpao7i.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns92A5BD5486A78chrislak@216.168.3.40

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris  <chrisl_ak@hotmail.com> writes:

    Chris> I want to "revert" as in "go back" to a previous
    Chris> version. Discarding all changes in between. I don't care
    Chris> what the new revision number is when I check the document
    Chris> back in. I care about the content. Most of your other
    Chris> scenarios don't match any meaning of the word "revert" that
    Chris> I am aware of, but hopefully this makes it clearer. I want
    Chris> to be able to say "oops, this is all wrong, let's go back
    Chris> three versions and begin again."

The  'rcs' command  has  a '-o'  option  that may  do  what you  want.
WARNING: this may result in PERMANENT loss of the deleted versions!


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Lee Sau Dan                     李守敦(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-14 10:48 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
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 [this message]

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