--- 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. > > 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. > > Regards > > Mike > You probably should not be use CVS. Although this is after the fact. CVS is entirely dependent on the user being 100% competent. This as you know can be a highly improbable (LOL) method of ensuring things work right. CVS as a consequence REQUIRES frequent (see DAILY) backup before allowing commits. SVN gives significant improvements over CVS with the added benefit of not giving the ability to NUKE an entire repository by one individual uploading changes. It keeps track of revisions for each file (not just the whole committal etc.) As for the repository I suggest if you can get someone with shell access to back up the entire site to do so ASAP. You will then need to pick through the pieces and try and make sense of it. That is the only suggestion I can make. As I said unfortunately CVS affords little protection when it comes to people making revisions, of them nuking the entire file set, and making the entire repository useless. This has happened to some big projects on source forge hence source forge now recommends SVN use only. Stephen Stephen R. Phillips was here Please be advised what was said may be absolutely wrong, and hereby this disclaimer follows. I reserve the right to be wrong and admit it in front of the entire world. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist