At 10:42 AM 2/19/02 +0100, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
>Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>[SNIP]
> > Finally, while trying to get the source tree from source forge, I 
> specified
> > squeak as the project.  This got what seemed to be a win32 specific
> > directory tree, along with lots of warnings like:
> > cvs checkout: in directory squeak:
> > cvs checkout: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent
> > repository /home/andreasr/CVSRoot
>
>This looks like you are checking out into a non empty local directory
>where you have earlier unpacked
>a sourcetree that you probably have gotten from Andreas in which he has
>forgotten to purge out
>the CVS administration subdirectories called "Cvs". :-)
>
>Try to do the checkout to an empty directory.

Though I could have sworn the directory wasn't there before checkout, a 
test confirms you are right.
Very impressive deduction. Thanks.