cvsup and cvs tree

[Galen Sampson]

Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
Something I've always wondered:  why does cvsup provide a completely
copy of the cvstree?  Seems a little strange to have to cvsup the entire
tree to your local machine only to then use cvs to extract a copy of the
latest code in cvs.
This is mostly useful for developers.  If you have the full cvs tree you 
can read the log messages about the files that are updated and other 
somewhat nifty things.

Regards,
Galen