Chad, Not quite. HEAD must always exist. As Michael pointed out in another post, one would normally do all new work in HEAD and backport. It's just another way of working with branches and you have to decide which method is most comfortable for you to get the job done. And even in my method, if HEAD didn't exist where would you begin code freeze update work. The DRUPAL-6 branch won't exist until release time. You need somewhere to work before that (unless you plan on having tardy modules then who cares ;) --Andy -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org]On Behalf Of Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines Sent: 02 February 2007 16:09 To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] CVS branch work best practices? AjK wrote: Now, in HEAD, I start porting to DRUPAL CORE HEAD. There's no point adding features here as we are probably in code freeze anyway and we're all upgrading like mad. Then, DRUPAL-6 comes along. Branch my module, wipe HEAD (till next code freeze) and continue devel down the DRUPAL-6 branch. please correct me if i'm wrong, but given this approach, why ever have HEAD at all? let's say you permanently wipe the files in HEAD except for the README. couldn't you just create the DRUPAL-6 branch directly from the latest DRUPAL-5 work? it doesn't seem like HEAD ever needs to exist in this model, except as a placeholder for the README. am i off base?? chad