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Avoiding Option Fatigue
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Most people tire pretty quickly of typing the same option flags with
every command.  If you know that you always want to pass the -Q global
option or you always want to use -c with diff, why should you have to
type it out each time?

There is help, fortunately.  CVS looks for a .cvsrc file in your home
directory.  In that file, you can specify default options to apply to
every invocation of CVS.  Here's an example .cvsrc:

     diff -c
     update -P
     cvs -q

If the leftmost word on a line matches a CVS command (in its
unabbreviated form), the corresponding options are used for that command
every time.  For global options, you just use cvs.  So, for example,
every time that user runs cvs diff, the -c flag is automatically
included.