Re: Command line alternative to the "Save revision as.."feature in History

Hi Hanaa,

 

The "save as" command in Tortoise is a big time saver for me -- one of
those things that I go back to the GUI from a CLI just to do because
it's so much more convenient from TCVS than CLI.  Command line
equivalent of what Tortoise is doing can be figured form the command
dialogs.  It is:

 

-- Creating a temp directory

-- Checkout the single file you want (e.g. cvs -d ... co -r REV
PATH/TO/FILE)

-- rename and move file to your original sandbox

-- Cleanup the temp directory

 

Assuming you mean "cvs up -r REV FILENAME" then it would overwrite your
sandbox file with the version specified.  If you did "cvs co -p -r REV
FILENAME" then it's going to dump it to STDOUT and might get mashed.
Better to do the temp directory method, or something like this:

 

-- CD to sandbox PATH/TO

-- Rename existing sandbox FILE to FILE.0

-- "cvs up -r REV FILE"

-- Rename FILE to new name

-- "cvs up -C FILE" (to clear the sticky tag - have to use other syntax
if you're in a branch/other tag)

-- del FILE

-- Rename FILE.0 back to FILE

 

Doesn't use all the temp directories, but still more cumbersome than
TCVS.  Could always write a script to handle that at the CLI if you're
doing it often, or purchase CVS Suite and put in a request to the
support team.  Our new product features are largely driven from customer
requests.

 

It sounds like for the 'unix sandbox', you're using the old (deprecated)
switch that only works for /that individual/ command (TCVS does this
with a preference setting).  There's a file expansion option that will
let you check out the file with UNIX line endings that you should use
instead.  See the kopt "L".  CLI help for this at "cvs up -k?".

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Glen Starrett

Technical Account Manager, North America

March Hare Software, LLC

http://march-hare.com/cvspro/ <http://march-hare.com/cvspro/> 

800-653-1501 x803

 

From: Hanaa Musa [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:49 AM
To: tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: [TortoiseCVS] Command line alternative to the "Save revision
as.."feature in History

 

Hello,

I need to retrieve all older revisions of a binary file. The "Save
revision as" option is exactly what I want. Is there a cmmand line
alternative for that?

I googled for a whole day, all I saw was this command

cvs -p -r <revision-number> <filename>

And then pipe it to another file. Not only do I get a bad new file, it
also corrupts the original file in my checkout. Can anyone please shed
light on why this happened?

When I first tried the GUI, save revision as option, I saw the same
error, and I had to set the Sandbox type to UNIX in CVS preferences.

So my questions are :

1) What is the command line alternative for the "Save revision as"
option we see in CVS history.
2) Does not the sandbox type setting apply to command line as well? If
not, how can I get the same setting while running commands?
3) Why is the update command corrupting the original file too?

Thanks a lot,
Hana.

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