Re: cvs -r

[Tim Connors]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Tim Connors wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Michael Albinus wrote:
>
> > Tim Connors <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I was having trouble getting the latest CVS to work, so tried to check out
> > > previous tags. The only thing I got working was CVS's -D feature to pick a
> > > particlular date.
> > >
> > > I tried various things like
> > > cvs upd -r V-2-0-38
> > > or
> > > cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/tramp co -r V-2-0-38 tramp
> >
> > Strange. I just did rerun your tests, but there was no problem. Have
> > you tried it with a fresh checkout (empty Tramp tree)? Maybe somewhere
> > in your Tramp tree there's still a .../CVS/Root file pointing to
> > pserver password authentication, which has been disabled on savannah
> > after the compromise.
>
> I discovered that a few days before. The stray CVS/Root files should not
> affect the cvs co line.
>
> But oddly enough, it is working today :)

Actually, can you just confirm my sanity please:

Could you please try that line with V-2-0-37 or V-2-0-36 instead?

2-0-38 is working for me, but not the earlier tags, which a cvs log shows
me exist.

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