It appears that some debug code has accidentally been left in, at least on Linux: In C:\user: "cvs.exe" "-q" "checkout" "-P" "tma" CVSROOT=:pserver:tma at cvs-gh.gatehouse:/cvs/test cvs checkout: cwd=C:\user ,current=C:\user cvs server: cwd=/tmp/cvs-serv6904 ,current=/tmp/cvs-serv6904 U tma/1.txt -Torsten