CVS'ing home directory files; CVS in place

[Glew, Andy]

This is probably a dumb question, but:

I want to use CVS to version control files in my home
directory, such as ~glew-home/.cshrc.

I have created a module, $CVSROOT/glew-home, and populated
it with my historic RCS files. 

I can check out this module as follows

        cvs co -d HOME glew-home

However, how do I check it out over/on-top-of
my existing home directory?  Since I do not have
root, I cannot do

        cd ~glew/..
        rm -rf glew
        cvs co -d glew glew-home

And the following attempt to accomplish it in place
gives an error

        cd ~/glew
        cvs co -d . glew-home