Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> cvs co of a branch will take some time on the server (I think it first does
> scan all files on the server to build a list of files that are active on
> the branch). While doing this the client process is just silent, and
> the network connection is idle. Maybe you didn't wait long enouth ?

no, it was checking out already quite a bit and then suddenly stops.
I've now waited a bit longer once and it then timeouted after 15 minutes 
or so.

mkb.