Frustrated with CVS simple commands

CVS makes no sense to me.

According to this documentation: http://www.wincvs.org/howto/cvsdoc/index.html ... you can only impoty a large set of source files as a module, then you can checkout files from that to work on.

It explains no way to simply add a file to an existing module that you have already checked out! This is ridiculous.

For example:

I already checked out an entire module I imported, called "Module".

Under "Module" I created a folder called "build" and inside a new file, "build.xml".

If a simply try to add this file, I get

cvs -d :local:/Users/Administrator/Repos/CVS add build.xml (in directory C:\EC Dev\Module\build)
cvs add: in directory .:
cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first

***** CVS exited normally with code 1 *****

Of course there's no version number, I haven't added it to the repository yet, stupid CVS, that's what I'm trying to do now!

WHy won't it let me add this file to the repository, after which it will give it a version, and then let me checkout that version? Why does CVS makes this so unintuitive?

Arghh!

Thanks for letting me vent. Anyone have any answers for me.

Paul



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