Hi all In the hope that it might be useful to someone else, here is how we use CVS and 'sitecopy' together with Zope. First, some background: our first need is simply to get all the relevant textual content in Zope onto the filesystem, so that multiple developers can work on it there using their text-processing tools of choice. Then of course we need to get the text back in. To do this, you need a good tool to automate the process. The best way I've found is Joe Orton's "sitecopy":http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ 1. Configure 'sitecopy' to: - exclude all the Zope objects that don't have a filesystem representation (such as SQL methods, SkinScript, external methods, MailHosts, Catalogs and so on). *Note*: while it is logical that some of these (such as external methods) don't have filesystem representation, others (such as SQL methods) simply lack PUT factories. - use the WebDAV source port (FTP access is a bit fragile). Because a 'sitecopy' site definition is single-rooted (you can't get files from different trees in Zope at once) you should define your 'sitecopy' sites for accessing your "App" directory (from the Zope root) and your ZClasses (in 'Control_Panel/Products/SomeName') seperately. 2. Use 'sitecopy' to pull down the site:: sitecopy --fetch app app_zclasses sitecopy --sync app app_zclasses To prevent 'sitecopy' from uploading *everything* next time you update, tell it that the local site is up to date:: sitecopy --catchup app app_zclasses 3. Import the site into CVS:: export CVSROOT=/path/to/your/repository cd ~/WORKINGDIR/app cvs import -m "Importing app" zope/app app start cd ~/WORKINGDIR/app_zclasses cvs import -m "Importing app_zclasses" zope/app_zclasses app_zclasses start Remove your working directory and check it out from CVS:: cd ~ rm -r WORKINGDIR cvs checkout zope/app cvs checkout zope/app_zclasses 4. Edit away:: cd ~/zope/app gvim (edit away ..) Whenever you want to make your edits active in Zope, do:: sitecopy --update app Once you are satisfied that something is working, check it into CVS. 5. Adding Zope objects. Since Zope creates DTML Documents for all textfiles uploaded, unless the file is uploaded to an existing object, adding needs to be done thru the ZMI. When you have created your object, fetch it via FTP and add it to CVS:: ftp zopehost > cd dir > lcd dir > get newMethod > bye cvs add dir/newMethod (It would be really great if there were some way, for example via a header block such as the '##data' section at the start of a Python script, to describe new objects on the filesystem so that the right object is automatically created when they're uploaded.) 6. Don't make any important changes using the ZMI. From now on, the authoritative source is the copy on the filesystem. Any TTW changes will be overwritten (if it was checked out) or forgotten (if it wasn't checked out and added to CVS control). Use the ZMI for quick experimentation, as far as code changes are concerned. Note: this method works fine on Linux, and on Windows if you use the "Cygwin tools":http://www.cygwin.com . 'sitecopy' is easy to compile under Cygwin. I hope this helps someone! Regards, Jean