Thanks for the link Chris!

Despite using CVS for about 5 years now I'd never heard of a .cvspass file. Sounds useful ... though I'm not sure I like the idea of having my password lying around in plain-text.

Anyhow you'll be happy to hear that, in the latest SVN the fsfs datastore has become the default. From what I can tell from reading countless horror stories like yours about BDB that's a good thing!

I've never really needed to branch my CVS projects, just tag them and TBH I prefer SVN's way of tagging. It all seems so much simpler with that nice directory structure.

Bart.