Does log just give info about files that are on my local machine?

[Aditya Gandhi]

Hi all,
I have setup my CVS client (WinCVS) to access the CVS repository. I
started by checking out a module.. but while this was happening I force
aborted the process of checkout. Then I tried to use the cvs log command
at a folder level to get history of all files that belong to that folder
in CVS.. but all that it showed to me was history of those files that
had been checked out on my machine.
Is that what is expected?
How can I work around this?
Thanks and regards
Aditya