Re: Problem with files on savannah

[Miles Bader]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>   Could not find desired version 1.574 in 
>> /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/admin/FOR-RELEASE,v
>>
>> Maybe I can work around this by making a new checkout, but then I
>> won't get my other changes merged in.  Is that the only way?
>
> Probably yes.  You could also try to edit CVS/Entries and hope for the
> best.

One thing I often do in such a case (where the CVS dirs got messed up)
is to make a new checkout in a different directory, and copy _only the
CVS dirs_ to the old tree.

E.g.:

   $ cvs -d ... co -d new-checkout emacs
   $ cd new-checkout
   $ find . -name CVS -print | xargs tar cf ../new-cvs-dirs.tar
   $ cd ../old-checkout
   $ find . -name CVS -print | xargs rm -rv
   $ tar xvf ../new-cvs-dirs.tar

[Usually I make a tar-file with the old CVS dirs before removing them,
just in case...]

-Miles
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