[cvsnt] how to retrieve a deleted file ..

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:27:48 +0000, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>
wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>
>> I never saw suct behaviour before, what is going on here?
>> I have not put any locks anywere and it was a month or so since I did
>> anythin at all in this test module. ?????????????
>
>It's possible the module was being checked out at the time, unless there's a
>dangling lock in the directory.
>
>btw. I've fixed the file undelete to be more sane now...
>
>Was:
>
>
>$ cvs add test
>cvs server: re-adding file test (in place of dead revision 1.2)
>cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
>$ cvs update test
>cvs server: warning: new-born test has disappeared  <-- DOH!!! 
>
>Now:
>
>$ cvs add test
>cvs server: re-adding file test (in place of dead revision 1.4)
>cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
>$ cvs update test
>cvs server: resurrecting deleted file test
>U test
>
>.. which is much more sane behviour IMHO.
>
>Tony
>

What happened to the cvs commit step? Is it not necessary?
And does the client cvs.exe need to be updated to make this work, or
is it sufficient to put a new version on the server?
(I got the new source from CVS, just asking out of curiosity...)


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)