Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> A colleague has tried to check in some changes to a project, and it's all gone horribly wrong.  The lastet revision of the project is now effectively null, any attempt to check out the latest revision of any of the files does nothing, Tortoise CVS just returns with no file being created.  All previous revisions are intact however and can be checked out.
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> Is it possible to effectively delete the last revision of every file affected?  If so how do I do this via the CVS command line (I'm guessing this won't be possible through the Tortoise interface)?  I have inhereted ownership of this CVS repositry due to the previous owner leaving, but I'm not exactly up to speed on the admin side of things yet so any advice would be appreciated.
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> Regards
>
> Mike
>
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Not a CVS guru, but I know something that makes looking at CVS a whole 
lot easier.....

Use Eclipse... I know it is a huge download, but it has the "CVS 
perspective" which allows you to browse the CVS Repository, see what 
branches there are, and what revisions there are. You don;t need to use 
the Java stuff to take advantage of the CVS stuff.

http://eclipse.org

I have found that tools like tortoiseCVS are useful, but do not give a 
very good idea of what the repository actually looks like, just what the 
checked out code looks like

Have a look at 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2005/cmsc131/EclipseTutorial/cvs.html for 
some help.

You may have to decide whether it is worth learning a new way to do 
things .... ;-)

For what it's worth, I imagine that there has been a branch, or merge 
gone wrong.

Rolf

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