How do I revert a big change in CVS?

Question

One of my colleagues has totally messed up the contents of a directory in our main CVS repository. I need to just revert the whole module to the state it was in at the end of l

Answer 1

I believe your second command should also be a checkout, rather than an update. I can't justify this with logic, since there is no logic in the world of CVS, but it has worked for me. Try this:

cvs co -P modulename
cvs co -P -jHEAD -jMAIN:2008-12-30 modulename

If you're reverting a branch other than HEAD, e.g. X, pass the -rX argument in both commands:

cvs co -P -rX modulename
cvs co -P -rX -jHEAD -jMAIN:2008-12-30 modulename