Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Screw up!

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Releif sweeps over me in waves :) (Is that a cheesy dialogue or what?!)

Thank $DIETY for small (in this case HUGE) mercies!

Here's an amusing story I will bore you with... Well, the latest commit
on the imaps.vim branch was an attempt to put a cvs 'keyword'.
Unfortunateley, I screwed up and put $Header: $ instead of $Header$.
Therefore, I got the bright idea of outdating the latest version and
recommiting the correct one so that the version history of imaps.vim
doesn't contain this faulty commit.

Now most cvs commands use ':' as an abbreviation for 'the latest
revision'. For example,

cvs admin -m :"`cat /tmp/log.txt`" imaps.vim

changes the log message of the last revision of imaps.vim...

I assumed 'cvs admin -o' also performed the same way. BIG MISTAKE!!! BIG
BIG MISTAKE!!! For 'admin -o', ':' is the same as "1:last" ARGH!!!

So as soon as I gave that command, I saw this:

~/testing/latex-suite/vimfiles/plugin > cvs admin -o : imaps.vim
RCS file: /cvsroot/vim-latex/vimfiles/plugin/imaps.vim,v
deleting revision 1.26
deleting revision 1.25
deleting revision 1.24
deleting revision 1.23
deleting revision 1.22
deleting revision 1.21
deleting revision 1.20
deleting revision 1.19
deleting revision 1.18
deleting revision 1.17
deleting revision 1.16
deleting revision 1.15
deleting revision 1.14
deleting revision 1.13
deleting revision 1.12
deleting revision 1.11
deleting revision 1.10
cvs server: /cvsroot/vim-latex/vimfiles/plugin/imaps.vim,v: can't remove branch point 1.9
cvs server: RCS file for `imaps.vim' not modified.

Well, after a minute or 2 of hectic pacing, I saw the last line...
Imagine my releif!!!!

So well, it looks like I learnt the lesson the easy way... Just a big
scare thats all....

More later!

Srinath

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Srinath Avadhanula wrote:

>
> I did a huge mistake while doing an admin job on the repository. I have
> just deleted versions 1.10 - 1.26 of imaps.vim!!! :(((
>
> Please wait for a while I go through the cvs logs and restore imaps.vim
> to the latest value.
>
> I also promise that I will _NEVER_ do a 'cvs admin' again. A lesson
> really badly learnt.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Srinath
>
>
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