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admin examples

Outdating is dangerous

First, an example of how not to use the admin command. It is included to stress the fact that this command can be quite dangerous unless you know exactly what you are doing.

The `-o' option can be used to outdate old revisions from the history file. If you are short on disc this option might help you. But think twice before using it---there is no way short of restoring the latest backup to undo this command!

The next line is an example of a command that you would not like to execute.

$ cvs admin -o:R_1_02 .

The above command will delete all revisions up to, and including, the revision that corresponds to the tag R_1_02. But beware! If there are files that have not changed between R_1_02 and R_1_03 the file will have the same numerical revision number assigned to the tags R_1_02 and R_1_03. So not only will it be impossible to retrieve R_1_02; R_1_03 will also have to be restored from the tapes!

Comment leaders

If you use the $Log$ keyword and you do not agree with the guess for comment leader that cvs has done, you can enforce your will with cvs admin -c. This might be suitable for nroff source:

$ cvs admin -c'.\" ' *.man $ rm *.man $ cvs update

The two last steps are to make sure that you get the versions with correct comment leaders in your working files.

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