CVS documentation can be found here, but from this site it tells how to revert a single file: MAKING THE OLD VERSION THE CURRENT VERSION Save the version of “oldfile” to something else and check out the “current” version. Note: you must still to do update -A to get the current version, because even though … Read more
AFAIK the CVS protocol does not allow to remove directories. You should go to the server console and remove them from the real physical repository. http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual/Removingdirectories.html You don’t remove the directory itself; there is no way to do that.
I found this worked pretty effectively: First, add all the directories, but not any named “CVS”: find . -type d \! -name CVS -exec cvs add ‘{}’ \; Then add all the files, excluding anything in a CVS directory: find . \( -type d -name CVS -prune \) -o \( -type f -exec cvs add … Read more
I believe that: cvs add file.txt cvs commit file.txt … will resurrect it from the attic.
A ‘dummy’ update will give you this information. cvs -qn update A short description of the used options: -q Cause CVS to be somewhat quiet. -n Do not execute anything that will change the disk.
You use cvs update -C filename
I suppose this command would help: cvs diff -N -c -r RELEASE_1_0 -r RELEASE_1_1 > diffs where RELEASE_1_0 and RELEASE_1_1 are the names of your tags. You can find a little more information on cvs diff command here plus it should be fairly simple to create a script to make report more suitbable for your … Read more