Introduction

DevGuy CvsNotify is a program for CVS that sends "tag", "loginfo" (commit), and "notify" (watch) notifications via email, News (NNTP), and/or IRC chat (actually, "notify" is via email only and "taginfo" doesn't support IRC). This script was written specifically for CVSNT but at least a subset of the functionality will work on any type of CVS server.

Features:

• Highly configurable

• Supports multiple CVS repositories on the same CVS server. Each repository can be given a name. Different repositories can have different "To" email addresses, etc..

• Negligible impact on CVS operations. Similar tools require the server to wait for email messages, etc. to be sent before CVS operations can complete.

• Intelligently accumulates messages. For example, all commits by the user "Joe" spanning multiple modules are batched into a single email message.

• Retries when email, etc. servers are down, so you won't lose any notifications

See here for more information.