Support the environtmental var "CVS_OPTIONS". Which can hold a set of

default options for cvs.  These options are interpreted first and can be
overwritten by explicit command line parameters.

Obtained from:	GNU Grep 2.3

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/cvs/man/cvs.1 b/contrib/cvs/man/cvs.1
index 1b30468..3714528 100644
--- a/contrib/cvs/man/cvs.1
+++ b/contrib/cvs/man/cvs.1
@@ -233,7 +233,10 @@ environment variable is set.
 .B \-R
 Turns on read-only repository mode.  This allows one to check out from a
 read-only repository, such as within an anoncvs server, or from a CDROM
-repository.  Using
+repository.
+Same effect as if the
+.SM CVSREADONLYFS
+environment variable is set.  Using
 .B \-R
 can also considerably speed up checkout's over NFS.
 .TP
@@ -2047,6 +2050,13 @@ will try hard to make the files in your working directory read-only.
 When this is not set, the default behavior is to permit modification
 of your working files.
 .TP
+.SM CVSREADONLYFS
+If this is set, the
+.B \-R
+option is assumed, and
+.B cvs
+operates in read-only repository mode.
+.TP
 .SM RCSBIN
 Specifies the full pathname where to find
 .SM RCS
@@ -2072,6 +2082,12 @@ If this variable is set then
 .B cvs
 will ignore all references to remote repositories in the CVS/Root file.
 .TP
+.SM CVS_OPTIONS
+Specifies a set of default options for
+.B cvs.
+These options are interpreted before the startup file (\fI~/.cvsrc\fP) is read
+and can be overridden by explicit command line parameters.
+.TP
 .SM CVS_RSH
 .B cvs
 uses the contents of this variable to determine the name of the