miller: do you get any message that your changes are sent to the pd-cvs list?
no.
I don't understand cvs well, but I do sometimes check out the latest and verify that it corresponds to my 'commit'...
there haven't been any diffs on the pd-cvs list of the 0.38-1 checkin...
i think the best way to use the stable_ branch would be to
stable_0_38/pd $ cvs commit -R to commit the changes recursively in the subdirs
stable_0_38/pd $ cvs tag -R 0_38_1 to tag the current content of the cvs to the name 0_38_1
or if you want to create a new branch (e.g. for stable_0_39) stable_0_38/pd $ cvs tag -R -b stable_0_39
cheers ... tim