#### Why does the solution branch use ~ instead of /home/beams/USERNAME in the solution branch?
The solution branch uses `~` instead of `/home/beams/USERNAME` in paths because it was the only way to make the solution branch build for everyone without requiring files to be edited.
The use of `~` is highly discouraged; only absolute paths should be used in RELEASE files. A negative side effect of using `~` in the path to `MOTOR_VMC` in the IOC's **RELEASE** file, is that `MOTOR_VMC` doesn't appear in the IOC's **envPaths** file. This wasn't a problem during the training becase the IOC doesn't load anything from the motorVMC module at runtime.
## The solution branch
Both the xxx and motorVMC repos have a **solution** branch with tags for each step that:
