SVN runs on the server and Tortoise runs on the developers (the client) machines. The documentation is very good, I think if you read through a bit of it you will get a good idea of how it all works. Here's a link to the main page for the Tortoise project: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ And a link to the documentation...read the Introduction, Basic Concepts and the Daily Use Guide sections: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/index.html Best of luck, BB

Subversion (SVN) and Tortoise SVN, an SVN client that integrates with Windows Explorer, combine to make (in my opinion) the best source control solution in the field. If you don't have the resources to run your own SVN server, search for hosted solutions. There are a number of good ones available. BB