<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Initial Setup</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="LVM HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Acquiring LVM" HREF="getlvm.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Before You Begin" HREF="beforebeginning.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Checking Out Source Code" HREF="checkoutsource.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >LVM HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="beforebeginning.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. Acquiring LVM</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="checkoutsource.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="initsetup" ></A >5.4. Initial Setup</H1 ><P > To make life easier in the future with regards to updating the CVS tree create the file <TT CLASS="filename" >$HOME/.cvsrc</TT > and insert the following lines. This configures useful defaults for the three most commonly used CVS commands. Do this now before proceeding any further. </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > diff -u -b -B checkout -P update -d -P </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Also, if you are on a slow net link (like a dialup), you will want to add a line containing <TT CLASS="filename" >cvs -z5</TT > in this file. This turns on a useful compression level for all CVS commands. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="beforebeginning.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="checkoutsource.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Before You Begin</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="getlvm.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Checking Out Source Code</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >