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Jeff Douglass wrote: > I am not a CVS power user and have a basic question. I use Tortoise to > store a bunch of different embedded system products SW builds. When I have > a new product to do I start with all the source code from a previous > product and make the required changes to different files. Once the changes > are compleated and tested I then have the new product build that consists > of all the source files. Currently I have been doing this by checking out > from CVS a previous module ( complete source code), make the changes and > then create a new module for the new product and commit all the files into > the new module. Is this the correct ( best way) to do this. That's an unusual way to work. Normally you'd check out a module, make your changes, commit them back and tag the release... > I am not sure > if checking out one module and never commiting anything back into that > module is the proper way to do things. If you never ever commit anything back into a module, then you're not using any of the revisioning support - so you might as well just use regular folders on a network share to store your files. -- David Somers typographer/programmer/whatever