Re: RCS revert to previous version

[MH]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Chris wrote:

> 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.

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vc-diff 

vc-merge ...

ediff-revision

see "Version Control" in the emacs info entry and ediff, of course
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