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Subject: Re: cvs fails to remove no-longer-present files 
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 23:57:33 -0600
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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Apparently, David Greenman scribbled:
> >The new cvs apparently has a bugfeature of checking out old things from
> >the Attic when there are references to the old things in CVS/Entries
> >This is inconsistent with the old cvs, and breaks ctm, which doesn't
> >export CVS/*.
> 
>    Oh! I haven't switched to using the new cvs yet...that explains it.
>    Peter?

Hmmm...  I stumbled onto something similar too.
What's the revision notion of "old" and "new" here?

Thanks,
jdl