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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler
>Sent: 24 May 2007 13:41
>To: piclist@mit.edu
>Subject: Re: [EE] CVS guru required
>

>Two main courses of action: 
>
>1- Use the "cvs admin" command to delete the dead revision. 
>This is possible for a repository admin, but I don't recommend 
>it. (Check out "cvs -H admin" for options.)
>
>2- Check out the revision you want as HEAD; probably 1.12. 
>This can be done in a number of ways; one would be the cvs 
>update command. Try "cvs -H up" for a list of options; "cvs up 
>-r 1.12 CalForm.frm" should work. This gets you the file you 
>want, but it has now a "sticky" tag of revision 1.12. Rename 
>the file, and issue another update command to get rid of the sticky
>tag: "cvs up -A CalForm.frm". Now rename the file back to 
>CalForm.frm, add it (you can now use Tortoise again, since you 
>now have a file to work with) and commit it. When you now 
>check the revision tree (again with Tortoise), you'll see the 
>revisions up to 1.12, followed by a dead revision 1.13, 
>followed by the HEAD revision of 1.14.
>
>The advantage of method 2 is that you don't remove any 
>information from the repository and can do this as a 
>non-admin. The "cvs admin -o" command actually removes 
>information from the repository files, which makes it so 
>dangerous (and that's also why it is an admin-only command).
>

Thank you Gerhard, that seems to have done the trick!

Regards

Mike

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