On Oct 15, 2016 4:31 AM, "Ian D. Leroux" <idler...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:09:52 +0200 (CEST) Havard Eidnes <h...@netbsd.org> > wrote: > > > And while I'm on a roll I might as well promote -P as well. I think > > > that unless you know what you are doing, -d and -P is probably > > > switches you always want to apply when you do cvs update. > > > > I agree -- that's why my ~/.cvsrc contains: > > > > update -d -P > > diff -u > > rdiff -u > > In fact, both the NetBSD guide (chapter 30) and the pkgsrc guide > (chapter 2) make this recommendation explicitly; though interestingly > they don't recommend exactly the same options. Setting ~/.cvsrc (mostly > following the pkgsrc guide) is the first thing I do to my user account > on a newly installed machine. Which is probably why people don't talk > about it much (beyond the guides). Once you've set ~/.cvsrc, you rarely > have to think about it.
TIL > -- > IDL
