Re: cvs and cvsup problems?

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> maybe i'm stupid, but i'm seeing really odd things with both tools (getting
> development trees):
>
> cvs: it gets a complete linux tree, but there is no top-level makefile.  it
> isn't clear to me what to do, at that point.
>
> cvsup: it gets a complete tree, but there are all kinds of revision files (the
> ',v' suffixes), and attempts to build get weird errors from make.

The ,v files are RCS files.
Make sure you have the "tag=." field in your sup file if you want
the the actuall files.

>
>
> i don't remember seeing either of these behaviors before.