[cvsnt] Betr.: RE: Betr.: Re: Betr.: Re: get a previous revision

[Torsten Martinsen]

Jan Keirse wrote:
> "Arthur Barrett" <arthur.barrett at march-hare.com> schreef op 14/04/2008 
> 01:06:02:
>
>   
>> Jan,
>>
>>     
>>> Probably a job matches a commitId (although I haven't looked into 
>>> commitId's yet).
>>>       
>> Yes from the sounds of it that is exactly what you should be using.  And
>> yes - if you want to 'rollback' a commit you certainly can using the
>> commit id.
>>
>> cvs update -e -j @commitid -j "@<commitid"
>>
>> When you commit this a mergepoint will also be creating which shows in
>> the history that the change was rolled back.
>>
>> Note: there are also 'user defined changesets' which can span multiple
>> commits, see "cvs commit -B jub-number".
>>     
>  
> That's exactly what I need to make my life easy, but I'd have to be able 
> to pass it to tortoiseAct, because we use it to do the commit. 
>   
To use 'commit -B', simply check 'Mark bug' in the Commit dialog.

You cannot get TortoiseCVS to use -e with 'cvs update', but you can 
enter '@commitid' and '@<commitid' in the Merge dialog.

-Torsten