Help! "Disappearing" log messages

[J Krugman]

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.  The command

  % cvs -d $MY_REPO ci -m "testing ci" some_file

...runs without any error messages, but immediately afterwards

  % cvs -d $MY_REPO lo some_file |grep "testing ci"

...produces no output.  Likewise,

  % grep "testing ci" $MY_REPO/MyProject/path/to/some_file,v

...also produces no output.

Shouldn't the string "testing ci" be somewhere in the output of
the cvs log command for some_file, and also in some_file,v?

TIA,

jill

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