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

If you have a backup of your repository (the actual RCS files on the server, e.g. on tape) you could just restore that folder on the CVS server to the state it was before. Don't forget to stop the CVS server before doing this (and restart it afterwards).