[Mailman-Developers] CVS glitch.

[Dan Mick]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>>>>>>"bob" ==   <bob@nleaudio.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     bob> Perhaps the docs on the website should be updated to reflect
>     bob> these commands, so others don't have the same problems.
> 
> Thing is, -A usually /shouldn't/ be necessary unless folks are trying
> to checkout a specific branch, tag, or date.  And unless you're doing
> maintenance on the 2.0 branch, or you want to see what 2.1b3 was like,
> you probably aren't doing that.
> 
> So I still want to know why Chuq finds it necessary to include the -A
> flag.  Chuq, does your CVS directory have a Tag file in it?

None of mine do, and I've definitely missed things in the past that -A
has gotten me.