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