Re: CVS question
Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com> writes:
> I have been using cvs to track development of the my latest tk/perl
> application. I have been coding along starting with version 1.1
> cruising along and making commits along the way. I got up to version
> 1.7 when I realized that I wanted to back up to version 1.6 make
> some changes, and continue from there.
>
> Here is how I backed up. I was on version 1.7, so I deleted the file
> I had. I then did a cvs checkout -r 1.6 which warned me that the
> current file had been deleted, but gave me 1.6.
>
> I made my changes, but now and can't seem to reintegrate them. Here
> is a what happens when I try to do a cvs commit
>
> brian@linux-dev:~/src/scripts> cvs commit tkcorrespond.pl
> cvs commit: sticky tag `1.6' for file `tkcorrespond.pl' is not a branch
> cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
>
> How do I commit this? I suppose I would want it to be version 1.8
What I'd do is checkout a current version and copy the files from the
1.6 checkout you did and commit them from the checkout of the current
version. Simple and effective.
Gary
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