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Tri Le wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone explain why the option -r behaves differently in cvs checkout > and export? For example: > > cvs checkout -r 1.15 (WORK) > cvs export -r 1.15 (NO) ...because it makes no sense, and back in the mists of time (pre CVSNT) it was decided that it was such a bad idea it should be disabled. Except immediately after an import, there's almost no situation where all the files have the same revision number anyway, so you wouldn't get a sane collection of files - plus with no CVS/ directories you couldn't even rectify the situation. Tony