I wrote:
> Something in the rsync process thinks that ignoring subdirectories
> named "core" is a good idea. I'm a bit surprised nobody ever noticed
> these were missing from anoncvs before ...
That's because they aren't. It's the -C switch in your rsync call
that's at fault. (And this demonstrates why comparing against checkouts
from the same CVS repo isn't an end-to-end test :-()
regards, tom lane