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notify
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Controls how the notifications for watched files are performed. (You may
want to read up on the watch and edit commands, or see the section
Note: Watches (CVS As Telephone) in Note: Advanced CVS.)  Each line
is of the usual form:

REGULAR_EXPRESSION PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]

A `%s' in ARGUMENTS is expanded to the name of the user to be notified,
and the rest of the information regarding the notification is passed to
PROGRAM on standard input (usually this information is a brief message
suitable for emailing to the user).  (See the section Note: Shared
Syntax earlier in this chapter.)

As shipped with CVS, the notify file has one line

     ALL mail %s -s "CVS notification"

which is often all you need.