[Zope-dev] "CVS Unupdate"

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:02 PM 7/2/99 -0600, Bill Anderson wrote:
>michel@digicool.com wrote:
>> 
>> Yes we have broken it somehow.  Such are the risks of following the
>> CVS very closely. ;)  There is one thing cvs need BAD, a 'cvs
>> unupdate' to revert a recently updated tree to it's previous state.  I
>> know this can be done on a file by file basis, but it would be nice to
>> step a whole tree of code back one iteration.
>> 
>> Any CVS Gods out there know the knack?  (There MUST be a way)
>I'll look into it ...
>

Whenever you check out a release, make a note of the precise date/time.
Then, if you need to revert to that release later, just:

cvs upd -D'date you checked out something that works'