Re: cvs -r

[Michael Albinus]

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.

> Oh, and cheers to the new years :)
> (Who else sits on mailing lists at 01:00:00:01-01-2004?)

Best regards, Michael (sitting with his wife only at midnight).