John Summerfield <postgres(at)herakles(dot)homelinux(dot)org> writes:
> -d fixed the missing directories
> and -P prunes obsolete ones.
> Obviously I needed to read the instructions more closely:-(
FWIW, I've used the following ~/.cvsrc for many years:
cvs -z3
update -d -P
checkout -P
The usefulness of -z3 depends on the speed of your connection, but
the other two lines fix obviously stupid defaults ...
regards, tom lane