recursive rollback?

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jmagaram - 11 Jul 2006 01:24 GMT

i labeled a project and subsequently made a lot of changes. now i want to
permanently discard all the subsequent changes and rollback to the labeled
version. is there a way to do this? i see a "rollback" button but it applies
to a single file, not to a whole project.

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Michael Buechel - 11 Jul 2006 10:31 GMT

Make a get latest to the label and do a new check in.

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>i labeled a project and subsequently made a lot of changes. now i want to
> permanently discard all the subsequent changes and rollback to the labeled
> version. is there a way to do this? i see a "rollback" button but it
> applies
> to a single file, not to a whole project.

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jmagaram - 11 Jul 2006 18:42 GMT

i'm not sure of the specific steps. i did:

view history
select the label
click "Get"
choose "Recursive" in the dialog box and choose "OK"

so now the labeled version is visible in Visual Studio correctly, and
everything appears to be checked in. so how do i check in that old version
again to effectively do a rollback? when i attempt to do a "Check Out" on the
whole thing, Visual Studio first gets the latest version. so how do i do what
you recommend below?

is there now way to do a recursive rollback? i assume this would be a top
priority feature since source control is used as an Undo mechanism. what am i
missing? am i not using the tool correctly or with the right methodology?

> Make a get latest to the label and do a new check in.
>
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> > applies
> > to a single file, not to a whole project.

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Michael Buechel - 11 Jul 2006 22:37 GMT

After getting the label do a recursive checkout without getting
a local copy (There is a checkbox).

After that, check in, thats it.

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jmagaram - 11 Jul 2006 23:05 GMT

thanks. so there is no recursive rollback? doing what you proposed certainly
gets the source code back to where i want it to be, but it would be cleaner
if i could simply throw away all the changes since the label.

> After getting the label do a recursive checkout without getting
> a local copy (There is a checkbox).
>
> After that, check in, thats it.

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