Re: Automatic updating (of display?) of the buffer *cvs* fails

[Richard Stallman]

    > Call M-x cvs-examine on a local CVS directory ("~/cvs/emacs/" in my
    > case).  After that command is finished hit in buffer *cvs* the key S
    > (which runs the command cvs-mode-mark-on-state) on a file with status
    > Need-Update, hit RET (so that all files with status Need-Update are
    > marked), and then hit O (which runs the command cvs-mode-update).
    > That runs usually a while and when it is done, you get the message

I am not sure how to make a local CVS directory, or exactly what that
term means.  Can one of you tell me a self-contained test case to
reproduce this bug?