Re: Restoring Dead Files

[Yves Dorfsman <yves@xxxxxxxxx>]

Todd Denniston wrote:


> C) The user issued the equivalent of
> `cvs remove -f image_cust1.JPG` and `cvs commit`
> [removed it from the sandbox and the repository]


> B) _could_ be recovered from by _carefully_ hand editing the CVS/Entries 
> file. {I recommend waiting a bit to see if anyone else responds before 
> using this option, i.e., to a newbie 'here be dragons'.}
> B & C) should be able to recover from using the method you have used 
> below. (but I think from the errors you got, that A was what was 
> used...i.e. they only did an OS remove not a cvs remove.)

I wouldn't edit the files by hand, but use rcs:
1) move the file from the dead directory back to its original location

2) find out the last version of the file before it got deleted:
rlog  file_name |grep 'revision ' |head -1 |cut -f 2 -d" "

3) assuming you get 1.14, do:
rcs -sEXP:1.14 file_name


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