[SLL] Can somebody in the world tell me how you check out the previous revision in cvs?

[Ben. B.]

That sets a sticky tag on the file so that you'll never receive
updates to it until you remove the sticky tag with "cvs update -A".

The trick I prefer to use (as long as the file is not modified) is to
print the revision out and redirect it to the same file so you can see
the differences, see that it's modified from the latest revision, etc.

cvs up -p -r1.98 file > file


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>>
>> I'm staring at the man page, and all I see available is tags.  I have a
>> revision 1.99 and I want to check out revision 1.98.  Should be simple, no?
>>
> cvs update -r revision file works.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>