From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Off topic: help with CVS, please! Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:55:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20090222205527.GA8368@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235334854 19025 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2009 20:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:34:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 22 21:35:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbL2l-00066O-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbL1R-0004fX-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbL1N-0004fS-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbL1K-0004fC-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40402 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbL1K-0004f7-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:2700 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbL1J-0004jh-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 64264 invoked by uid 3782); 22 Feb 2009 20:33:40 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E53BC7.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.59.199]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:33:38 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 8858 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 2009 20:55:27 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109288 Archived-At: Hi, Emacs! Could somebody help me with CVS, please. I've got the CC Mode repository into a mess. The head of cc-langs.el is 5.288, and contains crud. I want to (somehow) get 5.286 and (somehow) commit it, so that it becomes head. I tried deleting cc-langs.el and # cvs update -r5.286 cc-langs.el An immediate "cvs update" then failed, without contacting the server or giving an error message. I then tried something or other (can't remember exactly what), but managed to damage CVS/Entries. Then I tried to download 5.286 to standard output. There doesn't seem to be a nice simple command like # cvs get -r5.286 cc-langs.el > /path/to/temp_file.el , which would just get a file version without having to worry about fouling anything up. There's something similar which I tried, namely: # cvs update -p r5.286 cc-langs.el > /path/to/temp_file.el, but I'm not convinced I got 5.286, and I'm now too frustrated and confused to check reliably. Could somebody with a clear head please suggest a recipe to me for obtaining 5.286 and committing it, unchanged, over 5.288 to become the new head. Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).