Re: Prob with cvs

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

I don't think anyone understands what you are trying to do:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> I update the revision number (of .xinitrc) .
> (1.2x to 2.0).

What does this mean? Where and what is .xinitrc? What does it have to do 
with CVS? How did you update its revision number?

> cvs co .xinitrc
>    cvs checkout:  cannot find module '.xinitrc'

The cvs program is a client that speaks to a CVS server. The checkout 
command (here abbreviated to co) retrieves a whole module stored on that 
server (e.g. src on anoncvs.netbsd.org) which may contains thousands of 
subdirectories and files. It is NOT used to deal with individual files.

What do the following say in the directory that you are trying to do this?

echo $CVSROOT
cat CVS/Repository
cat CVS/Root
cvs log .xinitrc

> Why does cvs hate .xinitrc? How do I fix this?

cvs co doesn't know anything about .xinitrc as it is not a module on the 
server you are trying to connect to.

This is no different to:
% ls .nonexistent
ls: .nonexistent: No such file or directory

That doesn't mean ls hates .nonexistent - it just doesn't exist.

--
Stephen