Rogue Wolves

I've decided to use CVS to maintain my Drupal sites rather than manually downloading Drupal updates and upgrading by copying the updates into your drupal folder. Manually updating is time consuming. In order to do it correctly you shouldn't just copy the new files overtop of your existing install since this could leave old files in your folder that are no longer used and can cause problems or security holes. To do it right you need to rebuild your Drupal folder and then copy in your settings, themes, etc. Then you may also need to go and download all your modules again for the new version. It turns into a chore quickly. A much better way is to use CVS to handle all the grunt work.

Drupal like many open source projects uses CVS to maintain it's development and release code. CVS is a version control system that helps developers keep track of their code and all the changes that have occured. Also, like many open source projects the CVS repositories that store this code are open for anonymous access (read only). This means anyone can download the latest code directly from the CVS repository that hosts it. By using CVS you get all the nifty features of a version control system such as updates to out of date files/folders and removal of files no longer in the repository. This is exactly the functionality I want in order to eliminate the need to manually perform these actions...