> It's possibly I'm being naive too. My intention was to simply do a > checkout using the keoe tag (which I've done) and then let cvs > automatically apply commits relative to that tag. I wa shaving trouble > distinguishing that behaviour from an actual branch. Admittedly I haven't > tried that yet. Oh good. I wasn't sure about your same suggestion how to incorporate the AAO CONVERT changes. It's not something I'd done in CVS before. If you do find the correct incantation, please report back. Malcolm