Re: ECLIPSE: cvs [update aborted]: could not find desired version

compaqr4000@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
That didn't work, I get the same error when I try to update it.
However, it did set me on the path of something that did work.

I replaced my local file with the latest from cvs head, and then
replaced it with Previous from Local History. By doing this, it
assigned a newer cvs version to my local file and I can compare to
cvs, commit, etc.

Lew wrote:
Kay, you showed some of the highest skills of the effective programmer just there.

Let me add that this is a case of Eclipse's internal "shadow" file structure, including its private version history, being part of the equation.

For those not using Eclipse, one could get a similar result by copying the changed version out of a directory, refreshing from CVS HEAD the way Kay did, then copying or merging (the latter being more careful) the revised version into the freshly CVS-updated one.

Any time you find yourself dodging CVS this way, something went awry earlier. Usually it's possible to bail out the first way I explained, using CVS to merge the HEAD version into the local copy. But now that I think on it, I have always used command-line 'cvs', not an IDE-mediated version, to make this work.

The Cederqvist manual is essential whenever you start digging underneath with CVS.
<http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/>

It's amazing what you can make CVS do if you dig through that manual, especially the "Administrative Files" section.
<http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.12.13/cvs_18.html#SEC176>

--
Lew
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