>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier
<monnier+lists.xemacs.beta/news/(a)rum.cs.yale.edu> writes: 
    Stefan> Directories are neither present not absent in CVS: they're
    Stefan> simply unmanaged (just added when necessary to place a
    Stefan> file into it), so saying that "etc/cdtd is not present in
    Stefan> that tag" is clearly mistaken because it just can't be in
    Stefan> any tag: CVS tags only apply to files.
That helps.  I will meditate on it, but I think it probably means that
I can chalk the whole problem up to Coda FS screwage at some point,
and now that the Coda volume has been cleaned up, I can forget it.
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