From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version Date: 14 Oct 2002 12:48:12 +0200 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5lr8eveba5.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cn-big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034599588 5015 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2002 12:46:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1814c6-0001Ie-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:46:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1814bw-0005kG-00; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:46:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!151.189.0.75!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: camaro.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:75279 gnu.emacs.help:106031 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2578 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2578 >>>>> "Chris" == Chris 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! -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´°(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee