Badger: Someone on one of the Moz newsgroups posted a fast-update perl script - it would use the Bonsai webserver to identify the files that had changed, and then use CVS to download those only, bypassing the usual CVS negotiation of these issues. The discussion suggested that this really helped, although it seems to me that CVS really ought to be more efficient at this kind of negotiation if a *webserver* can provide the required information so much quicker. Try looking through n.p.m.builds (and ask if you don't find it).