[cvsnt] Re: Help correcting mistake

[P. Dwayne Miller]

I know this should not have been done.  We failed to find a way of 
recovering a mistakenly deleted file.  He claimed he could properly edit 
the file, so I let him.  Definitely my bad!

So... is there a proper way of recovering a file from the attic, and 
keep the revision history?

Tks,
Dwayne


Glen Starrett wrote:

> P. Dwayne Miller wrote:
>
>> I have a user that tried to manually move a file out of the attic... 
>> (he had deleted it by mistake).  Now, some operations work on that 
>> file, but some result in the following error
>
>
>> He says he removed the 'DEAD" revision by editing the file manually.
>>
>> Any hopes?
>
>
> Go to your last backup of your repository and restore the file from 
> that.  You'll loose any changes since then but you could piece those 
> together from your broken RCS file.  If you don't have a good backup, 
> I'd start looking at the RCS file spec and try to piece together what 
> is wrong.
>
> ...and never, EVER, do that again!...
>