[cvsnt] Re: commit -r and admin -o

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:29:39 +0100, "Harrison, Andrew"
<andy.harrison at anite.com> wrote:

>Would it be possible to add this functionality to commit -r, ie if you
>specify a revision that would be in the past, but doesn't exist, then it
>inserts it into the RCS file at the specified point?
>
That would be really hard to implement - eg. you could create
conflicts in the middle of the file.  It's well outside the remit of
something like commit -r to do this... possibly an admin command but
I'm not sure I'd trust the result.

Tony