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Re: RCS revert to previous version
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Chris |
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Re: RCS revert to previous version |
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Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:44:09 -0000 |
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on 11 Oct 2002, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair_tocancipa@gmx.net> spake
thusly:
> Chris writes:
>
> > Right... but my question is how to make that the current
> > version... do I have to delete the entirety of my current working
> > file and copy and paste from the older version window? I can't
> > just check the older version in and have it become the latest. I
> > was hoping there was a more efficient way than copy and paste...
>
> Is this, what you need?
>
> ,----[ C-h k C-x v u ]
>| C-x v u runs the command vc-revert-buffer
>| which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `vc'.
>| [Arg list not available until function definition is loaded.]
>|
>| Revert the current buffer's file back to the version it was based on.
>| This asks for confirmation if the buffer contents are not identical
>| to that version. This function does not automatically pick up newer
>| changes found in the master file; use C-u C-x v v to do so.
Well, this command reverts the current buffer back to the state when it
was last checked out. Which can be handy, but is not what I am looking
for. Let me take another stab at explaining. I have a document that has
gone through these changes (numbers are version numbers):
1.5
Bob went to school
1.6
Mary went home
1.7
John went to the market
1.8
Chris discovers emacs (and then fire)
I open the document (1.8) and discover that I need to go back to version
1.6. How best to do this? I can open 1.6 up using the show-other-version
command, but then I have to select everything in the old display document
and paste it "over" the new document. It just seemed to me there must be
a better way of going back more than one revision.
Maybe I am just missing something really stupid... or maybe this is just
not needed very often. But the ability to revert back more than one
version seems very useful to me.
Re: RCS revert to previous version, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2002/10/12