Shameless self-promotion (to complement the Perforce article advertised 
by Jay):

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/User:RavuAlHemio/Tackling_SDK_updates_with_Subversion

By the way, Subversion and (AFAIK) CVS also use "branch" terminology.

~~ Ondra

On 10.06.08 23:57 Uhr, Chris Green wrote:
> The best way depends on what version control software you are using.
> Using perforce terminology, basically what you want to do is have a
> branch in your version control system which represents the unmodified
> sdk code. You start your project by checking in the unmodified code and
> then branching your project off of that. When you get a new drop from
> valve, check that code into the valve branch and integrate it into your
> project. That will perform the merge in a "smart" fashion. Cvs,
> subversion, etc will use similar methods.
>    

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