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[dboersma]

>Submitter-Id:   net
>Originator:     David Boersma
>Organization:
DESY Zeuthen www.ifh.de www.desy.de
>Confidential:  no
>Synopsis:      empty subdirectory is missing after 'cvs co -D "some date"'
>Severity:      serious
>Priority:      medium
>Category:      cvs
>Class:         sw-bug
>Release:       1.11.5
>Environment:
System: Linux najade25 2.4.27-z1 #1 SMP Sun Aug 8 12:27:39 CEST 2004 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686

>Description:
Our project ("sieglinde") has a source tree with several subdirectories.
One of them is called testing, it contains:
./testing
./testing/CVS
./testing/CVS/Root
./testing/CVS/Repository
./testing/CVS/Entries
./testing/CVS/Entries.Log
./testing/db
./testing/db/CVS
./testing/db/CVS/Root
./testing/db/CVS/Repository
./testing/db/CVS/Entries
./testing/db/README
./testing/README
./testing/inputdata
./testing/inputdata/CVS
./testing/inputdata/CVS/Root
./testing/inputdata/CVS/Repository
./testing/inputdata/CVS/Entries
./testing/inputdata/README
./testing/scripts
./testing/scripts/CVS
./testing/scripts/CVS/Root
./testing/scripts/CVS/Repository
./testing/scripts/CVS/Entries
./testing/scripts/CVS/Entries.Log
./testing/scripts/getfiles.sh
./testing/scripts/README
./testing/scripts/out
./testing/scripts/out/CVS
./testing/scripts/out/CVS/Root
./testing/scripts/out/CVS/Repository
./testing/scripts/out/CVS/Entries
./testing/scripts/stage2a.sh
./testing/scripts/test_f2kIn_SLR.sh
./testing/scripts/test_ipdf.sh
./testing/scripts/twrtest.sh
./testing/scripts/calfile
./testing/steeringfiles
./testing/steeringfiles/CVS
./testing/steeringfiles/CVS/Root
./testing/steeringfiles/CVS/Repository
./testing/steeringfiles/CVS/Entries
./testing/steeringfiles/steerTWR.sl
./testing/steeringfiles/README
./testing/steeringfiles/SLsteering_file2a.L1
./testing/steeringfiles/test_f2kIn_SLR.sl
./testing/steeringfiles/test_ipdf.sl
./testing/steeringfiles/testmergedf2k.L1

The problem: when I do a (fresh) checkout with a date specification, like

cvs co -D "23 September 2004 8pm" sieglinde
cvs co -D NOW

then I do not get the ./testing/scripts/out directory. This directory was
added one week ago to the repository. When I cd to the /testing/scripts/
directory then I do get the out/ directory with

cvs update -d

But since the directory was already in CVS at 23 September 2004 8pm,
I think it should already have been included in the initial checkout.
Our users think so too, I would like to know if this is indeed a bug or
that we are somehow misunderstanding the functionality of CVS.

>How-To-Repeat:
Our CVS repository is in pub.amanda.wisc.edu:/net/local/cvsroot but I do
not know if it supports anonymous checkouts.
if it does:
mkdir tmp1
mkdir tmp2
cd tmp1
cvs -d $CVSROOT co -D "23 September 2004 8pm" sieglinde
ls sieglinde/testing/scripts/out
cd ../tmp2
cvs -d $CVSROOT co sieglinde
>Fix:
Nope.