cvsup and cvs tree

[ibotty]

> 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.

you can get just the current head by specifying something like "tag=."

i am not on my bsd box, so i cannot check, just read the man page.

~ibotty