I tried to do something like this when I was royally screwing up syncing between CVS and live (and ending up with 5-6 different copies of each file I changed, which resulted in a 71,000 line diff file), but I *think* I did something different, because at some point, the amount of "fix this" meant it was easier to just reinstall my hack. Let me see if I can track down the instructions, unless someone more knowledgeable comes along *G*