Re: Need to restore a file

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>]

Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Angela Marie Thomas wrote:
>> jjohnstn@redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   I recently made some changes to the eclipse update site and 
>>> inadvertently trounced the site.xml file.  Could I please restore it 
>>> to a couple of days ago or even a week ago.
>>>
>>>   The file in question is:
>>>
>>>    /var/www/sourcware/htdocs/eclipse/update/site.xml
>
> Just on the off-chance you have forgotten about it, I notice there is 
> a /cvs/eclipse/org.sourceware.update/site.xml,v file. The contents are 
> clearly a lot older than the little that is mentioned at 
> http://sourceware.org/eclipse/update/site.xml but it's got several 
> things that aren't mentioned, which may help for reconstructing the 
> contents. Or it may be a completely different file. I just thought I'd 
> best mention.
>
> Jifl

Thanks Jonathan.  That's very helpful.  We had an intern working on 
changelog and I didn't even know he had started a cvs repository.  It is 
missing a bunch of his last changes, but beggars can't be choosers.

-- Jeff J.