Dmitriy Beloslyudtsev writes:
>
> >Synopsis:    cvs get -d some/dir in pserver mode doesn't work right if "some/dir" 
>has '/' in name
[...]
>       cd /var/tmp
>       mkdir ncbi
>       cvs get -d ncbi/demo distrib/demo

A long-standing (and very hard to fix) bug.  The workaround is to just
cd to the parent of the directory you want checked out:

        cd /var/tmp
        mkdir ncbi
        cd ncbi
        cvs get -d demo distrib/demo

-Larry Jones

Yep, we'd probably be dead by now if it wasn't for Twinkies. -- Calvin


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