This is the very first time I've tried to contribute to Drupal, or use a CVS of any description, or use this list, so please bear with me if I am making mistakes or asking idiot questions. I would also like to start by saying how much I appreciate the Drupal community and all the help I've had over many months - which is why I would like to make a very modest contribution of my own. I've managed to install Tortoise CVS and after a bit of messing about succeeded in doing a "checkout", which I think uses the same commands as those in the Drupal instructions. I've also successfully created a new directory in the list of modules called "checkout" (confusingly, this is actually the name of the module I want to contribute). So I have made a start. However, there are some first questions I would like to ask: 1) My success with Tortoise so far has downloaded to my workstation what looks like the ENTIRE Drupal CVS. Apparently I could update anything in this - that makes me very nervous that I might mess up someone else's work, or Drupal core worse still. Is there any way to avoid this? 2) Do I need to keep all these directories on my workstation for the CVS to work? 3) Is there anywhere some documentation for helping a Tortoise user with Drupal to get started? 4) I seem to have managed to create a "Checkout" module (tomorrow I will try to create the project under Drupal) in the CVS, with all the appropriate files - not sure that I understand tagging and branching yet, so will have to see if it works. But every time I load a file to the CVS server I get this message in the Tortoise window: initial revision: 1.1 cvs commit: Using deprecated info format strings. Convert your scripts to use the new argument format and remove '1's from your info file format strings. Do I need to worry about this? Many thanks to all, and again my apologies if I'm wasting your time. JG ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com