I tried to update my files with CVSup, but all I got were a bunch of strange looking files whose names all ended with “,v”. Why?
Those strange files are RCS files, and CVSup sent them to you because your cvsupfile told it to. When you ask CVSup to send you updates from a CVS repository, there are two different things you can ask for. First, you can ask for the source files to be extracted from the repository and sent to you. That is apparently what you wanted in this case. Second, you can ask for the raw RCS files (containing all versions of the sources) to be sent to you. These two modes of operation are fundamentally different. Both work from RCS files in a CVS repository on the server host. But they use the RCS files in different ways. The first mode, called “checkout mode,” extracts a particular version of the sources from the RCS files, and sends you that version. The second mode, called “CVS mode,” sends you the RCS files themselves, in the same form as on the server. In the cvsupfile, the “tag” and “date” keywords control which mode is used. If either of these keywords is present, then CVSup uses checkout
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