RE: MS1 or Daily Snapshot

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The advantage to working with the daily snapshots is you get to know the code a lot better.

Even if you never did anything but added the updates you get to learn the files, what they do, how they interrelate, etc.

While you can learn to use CVS and a click of a button or two and you are updated, the advantage of manually updating is *seeing* the code changes per file on a slower, more closely seen basis so you get to know the code.

Understanding the effects of various changes ... learning coding standards and developing your own is a neat experience.

This doesn't mean you have to be a guru at code either.

Programs like Beyond Compare can help you a lot in making the file comparrisons and seeing the new changes and applying them.

I like the daily snapshots ... but I move into them with caution based on the types of changes made and number of changes made.

Most of all ... backup ... a lot! 8)