Comment 34 for bug 45719

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Aaron Bentley (abentley) wrote : Re: [Bug 45719] Re: update command cannot take a revision number

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Julien wrote:
> I have used "cvs update -r" countless times to retrieve earlier versions of the codebase into my working directory, generally to:
> * try and track down which change introduced a bug
> * compare the performance of different versions on specific testcases
> * inspect earlier versions of the code base, for whatever reason

For all of those purposes, you can use revert -r.

Aaron
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