Marc Slemko wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>
> > Ben Laurie wrote:
> > >
> > > Marc Slemko wrote:
> > > > The problem is that much of the code here is more interrelated and needs
> > > > to be better on a per line basis because it simply isn't as big as some
> > > > projects. Voting has raised a heck of a lot of objections to all sorts
of
> > > > patches, mine included. You can do this stuff after the fact, but the
> > > > problem is that if no one has time to pursue it, it just falls away.
> > >
> > > I'd say that the solution to this is to say that if anyone has a problem
> > > with a particular patch then it MUST be backed out and use the
> > > review-then-commit model.
> > >
> >
> > >From a totally clueless person (and it might be in the FMs) how does
> > one back out a specific commit?
>
> You don't. CVS doesn't support it.
>
> You just find the diff, reverse (eg. diff the version nums in the opposite
> directory, patch -R, etc) it and apply it.
>
Oh... With all the discussion about "the power of CVS" I thought that
somehow you could tell cvs to take out commits # A, B and C and
cvs would handle everything else.
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