I've often wanted to check out a module, then prune off the directories and files that I didn't need. Until the other day I couldn't figure out a way to do it entirely with CVS commands. What I had been doing is deleting the directory that I didn't want, then manually updating the CVS/Entries file of the parent. This just seemed wrong. The other day I realized that I could use the same mechanism used in the suggested 'cvs ls' equivalent (cvs rdiff -s -r 0 module). I could cause CVS to discard the files I didn't want by specifying a non-existant revision, and prune empty directories. cvs update -r 0 -P file-or-directory-to-remove Hopefully someone else will find this useful. Shane
