Hi!

Since I hate waiting for a 'cd /usr/src; cvs update' to finish, I
wrote a short Perl program that uses source-changes posting to only
update the files or directories that really need updating.

You could use this script as a mail-filter, or you can run it over the
whole mailfolder where you collect the source-changes postings:

cat mail* | autofetch.pl | sh
or
autofetch.pl mailfolder | sh
or
autofetch.pl mail1 mail2 mail3 | sh

should all work. Following branches is also very easy.

For your first tries, lose the '| sh' at the end and look if the
output looks correct.

One more thing: You'll have to customize some variables at the
beginning of the script first (what parts of the sources you're
interested in, and where the base directories for them are; you can
also influence the flags cvs gets passed), and perhaps your perl
path.

Hope this proves useful,
 Thomas

-- 
Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
I wanted to emulate some of my heroes, but I didn't know their
op-codes. --dowe