Re: Current CVS in a bad state?

Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> writes:
> Quoting Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Did you use -P during the checkout?

> No, but then the last time I did this (about a month ago) I didn't then either.

That's why it reappeared, then.

> As I just said to Marc, I remember the directory being deleted on the server
> side after I had done a cvs delete.

CVS *never* deletes a server-side directory.  Read the manual.

I don't know why -P isn't the standard behavior, because the default
(non -P) is confusing and almost never what you want.  I keep this in
my ~/.cvsrc:

cvs -z3
update -d -P
checkout -P

            regards, tom lane