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Re: RCS revert to previous version

From: Lee Sau Dan
Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version
Date: 14 Oct 2002 12:48:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris  <chrisl_ak@hotmail.com> writes:

    Chris> I want to "revert" as in "go back" to a previous
    Chris> version. Discarding all changes in between. I don't care
    Chris> what the new revision number is when I check the document
    Chris> back in. I care about the content. Most of your other
    Chris> scenarios don't match any meaning of the word "revert" that
    Chris> I am aware of, but hopefully this makes it clearer. I want
    Chris> to be able to say "oops, this is all wrong, let's go back
    Chris> three versions and begin again."

The  'rcs' command  has  a '-o'  option  that may  do  what you  want.
WARNING: this may result in PERMANENT loss of the deleted versions!


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