RE: Use of Update Options, Reset any sticky tags/date/kopts - erased file!

Collette,

WinCVS is just a GUI, the tool that is doing the work is CVSNT.

If you are using CVSNT as the basis of your versioning, I strongly
recommend reading a book or two about it or getting some training.

Jens has already answered where you *may* find a copy of the deleted
file, so I'll answer the other half of your questio - about the process.

If you are working on branch JUNE_BRANCH and want to have the changes
made to 'hello.cpp' now available on Trunk then the correct procedure
is:

1) commit your work to JUNE_BRANCH

  c:
  cd \path\to\sandbox
  cvs ci -m "my changes"

2) create a new sandbox/workspace for Trunk

  c:
  cd \path\to\emptydir
  cvs -d :sspi:host:/myrepo co mymodule

3) merge from JUNE_BRANCH to Trunk

  c:
  cd \path\to\emptydir\mymodule
  cvs up -j JUNE_BRANCH


Note: WinCVS doesn't support most of the modern features of CVSNT, eg:
user defined changesets, Access Control Lists, MergePoints etc - so I
recommend you upgrade your GUI to TortoiseCVS or even better CVS Suite
(the profits from which go to developing CVSNT).

Regards,


Arthur Barrett
Product Manager - CVSNT




> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of collette.parr
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 4:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [cvsgui] Use of Update Options, Reset any sticky 
> tags/date/kopts - erased file!
> 
> 
> In trying to move a file on a branch back to the mainline of 
> code, we went to Modify, Update Options, and selected the 
> Sticky options:  Reset any sticky tags/date/kopts.  When we 
> refreshed the screen in WinCVS, the file was not listed.
> We searched for the local copy on the software engineer's 
> hard drive, and it was not there.  It also was not in 
> SourceForge (our code repository tool), nor could I see it on 
> the backend in the file structure in /cvsroot on the server.
> It appears that this option erased the file from existence!
> Is this a known error?  What did we do wrong?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as this represents 
> quite a bit of lost work.
> Thanks,
> Collette
> 
> 
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