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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:02:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Restore botched changed to original
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In-Reply-To: <VA.00000585.002206c2@thesoftwaresource.com>; from bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:51:02PM -0500

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:51:02PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote:
>I have been working on a change for the Cygwin Setup program and now have 
>managed to botch up my version of choose.cc completely.  I made a copy of 
>my version and did a cvs diff - so I know what is different and I wanted 
>to put my copy back to the master cvs version.
>
>I know I can retype my changes but is there another way to revert back 
>(say for example) by doing a 
>
>cvs checkout cinstall/choose.c
>
>or something of that nature.
>
>I did look at the man pages but really couldn't find this.

Remove the old file and do a 'cvs update choose.c'.

Or, you could also do a 'cvs update -p choose.c > choose.c'.

cgf