Notes for CVS Concurent version system

A message such as

2402/path/to/repository: no such repository

means that your client is older than version 1.11.x and doesn't understand host:port being part of the pserver path (eg cvs -d :pserver:hostname:2402/path/to/repository). You need to upgrade.

cvs commit: sticky tag `1.1' for file `maindumpswitch.ihtml' is not a branch

Take the sticky tag off the file with:

$cvs update -A maindumpswitch.ihtml

view an old revision of a file

you can 'update' a file to stdout using -p

$cvs update -r 1.14 -p index.php