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Eric, > Is there any way to do a "merge", but to indicate to CVS that > what I really > want is a fresh copy of a particular version of a file (in > this case, the > latest HEAD version) in my branch and to not actually try to > merge the > differences themselves? No there is not. The only instances where the 'whole file' should be in conflict is if it is a very very small file (diff can't really do much with a 3 line file) or if it is a unicode file (there is a bug - we have a patch for commercial customers but it is waiting resources to merge it in to 2.5.04). When I need to do a merge/replace what I do is a 'normal' merge then take the list of files that were updated and 'copy' them from the originating branch/head sandbox over the top of the 'merged' sandbox. It's a bit manual - but it is a fairly dangerous thing to do, so I'd personally not really be happy with it being automagic. Alternatively you can use Winmerge tree merge and copy from one direction to the other. It is my intention to create a patch for Winmerge to create mergepoints properly when this is done - but I've no idea how far down my list that task is... Regards, Arthur