'checkout -d .' problems

[Jim.Hyslop]

If you use the command

cvs co -d . [filename]

and specify a particular file, then CVS will die with one of two messages,
depending on whether or not there is a ./CVS subdirectory:

cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs [checkout aborted]: no repository

or 

cvs server: existing repository /cvs does not match /cvs/cvs-test/jhyslop
cvs server: ignoring module cvs-test/jhyslop/test.txt

The exact command given was cvs co -d . cvs-test/jhyslop/test.txt

On the other hand, if I supply any directory name instead of '.' then CVS
quite happily creates dirname/file.txt

I want to check out the specified file into the current directory. Is there
some reason this should not be allowed, or should I submit a patch for this
odd behaviour?

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)