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Having read up a bit on ampersand modules, I'm looking at how we may use them here. Is it possible to define a specify a tag for an ampersand module? Background: We have many includes that are developed independently of the actual clients' programs. Currently, we copy the includes into the clients' module for use. That way, we know the include wont change unless we re-copy the file. Unfortunately, field changes to the include seldom get back into the include modules. Ideally, we'd refer to specific versions of the include via tags (ampertag?), and changing the "ampertag" and updating would bring a different version of the include. If a developer needed to update an include, they move the tag to HEAD, verify their changes aren't addressed, make a change, test, tag, update the "ampertag". Someone may suggest to check out the include, tag it normally, then make sure my compiler looks there for include files. The problem with this approach is that I commonly work on many different client files throughout the week (as do most programmers here), and remembering that ProgA needs this set of tags, and ProgB needs this other set of tags would quickly become nightmarish. I suppose this *might* be mitigated by maintaining identically named tags for each client... Any suggestions? __________ The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. -Douglas Adams