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> I'm looking at the Essential CVS book and there is a section on using the > command > > cvs checkout -l -d cvsroot . > > as an alternative to using "cvs import" (page 157). Either that was a typo or you misread. I guess it rather was something like: cvs -d <CVSROOT> checkout -l . This could indeed be used as a preparatory step for creating a new root module. If you execute this in the parent folder of the directory you want to turn into a root module you could afterwards use the Add command to add the folder and individual files in it. What the above basically does is non-recursively checkout the root of your repository (i.e. ".") which usually contains no files. The net effect is that after having issued this command you have a hidden CVS directory in the folder you executed it in that contains the necessary meta information without which the Add command would not work. Example session: c:\Dev>dir /b MyModule c:\Dev>cvs -d:sspi:localhost:/testroot checkout -l . cvs server: Updating . c:\Dev>dir /b /ah CVS c:\Dev>cvs add MyModule Directory /testroot/MyModule added to the repository c:\Dev>cd MyModule c:\Dev\MyModule>cvs add -kb test.gif cvs server: scheduling file `test.gif' for addition cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently c:\Dev\MyModule>cvs commit -m"Initial Import" test.gif RCS file: /testroot/test/test.gif,v done Checking in test.gif; /testroot/test/test.gif,v <-- test.gif initial revision: 1.1 done Hope this helps. -- Oliver ------ In everybody's best interest, please do not post or CC technical questions to me in private unless they are specifically about a macro/product of mine that is NOT already bundled with WinCvs. I will generally forward my replies to such posts to the CVSGUI list without further notice. ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)