Re: reverting a file in a repository

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:21:59AM -0500, Benjamin A. Collins wrote:
> > I hade a mistake in my repository by checking in a file that had
> > sensitive information in it.  I didn't realize it at the time and it
> > has been committed and pushed.  Simply patching out the changes and
> > re-committing the file isn't a good solution for me because the
> > sensitive info is still stored in the repository and viewable.  Is
> > there a way to completely rip a cset (or a partial cset for a
> > particular file) out of the repository?
> 
> There are a couple of ways.  The main thing you have to worry about is 
> hunting down the other repos to which it has pushed and fix them as well.
> If you have a master repo and you have access to that then do it there 
> and have people reclone.

<snip>

Larry, thanks for the tip.  As it turns out, another member of my team
had done a 'bk rm' on the file in question which created obvious
difficulties.  What I ended up doing was cloning the master repository
right up to the point where the original mistake was made, and then
used stripdel to back out the one mistake.  Then I used treediff to
get the changes that I had excluded and brought the fixed repository
up to date using 'bk import'.

Thanks again.

bc
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