Re: CVS bug? "cvs checkout: move away bar; it is in the way"

[Larry Jones]

kynn@panix.com writes:
> 
>   % rm -rf Foo && mkdir Foo && cd Foo
>   % echo -n 0 > bar 
>   % cvs -d $TESTCVSROOT import -m '' Foo vendor_1 v1
>   N Foo/bar
> 
>   No conflicts created by this import
> 
>   % cvs -d $TESTCVSROOT checkout -d . -r vendor_1 Foo

This is the root of your problems: you're doing a checkout into an
existing directory that already contains files.  You should always let
checkout create a brand new directory.

-Larry Jones

I kind of resent the manufacturer's implicit assumption
that this would amuse me. -- Calvin