How do you revert (roll back) to an earlier version of a committed file in CVS

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Published on 2010-04-06T21:24:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 21:33 UTC
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Let's take for example a single file committed in CVS with the following history.

test.cpp
rev 1.1
rev 1.2
rev 1.3

How do I revert to rev 1.2 discarding the changes in 1.3 and then continue to make modification from that point on?

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