Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to 'update' an updated archive?

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:34:13PM +0100, TC wrote:
> But suppose I have deleted one or more files and I don't know 
> which.  "cvs update" would simply get the for me.  What's arch's
> approach (other than saying, "be more careful with your 
> files idiot!" :-)

`tla undo' should put things back, but it will do any other changes too.

The the other changes are simple file changes, you can easily handle this
case by saving a patch first, undoing the tree, and then applying the saved
patch to restore the file changes.

E.g.:

  $ tla changes --diffs > ,patch
  $ tla undo
  $ patch -p1 < ,patch

If you're using `explicit' tagging, and the files got deleted uncleanly, the
`tla undo' may fail because the explicit tag (.id) files are still hanging
around; in that you'll want to remove them before the `tla undo' (if you have
tla-tools installed, `tla-update-ids' can be a convenient way to do this as
it's just one command for all files).

-Miles
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