Setting Defaults for CVS Commands

To avoid always having to include standard command-line switches for common operations, the default options can be put in a ~/.cvsrc file. Here is an example:

update -dP
diff -c

This means that the command

$ cvs update

will be executed as though it had been typed thus:

$ cvs update -dP

To turn off these default settings for a particular occasion, use

$ cvs -f ...

to ignore the ~/.cvsrc file.