     writeDefaultPrefs :: IO ()Source  .[^/] ^_ ~$ (^|)CVS($|)
end{verbatim} A newly created repository has a longer boring
file that includes many common source control, backup,
temporary, and compiled files.  You may want to have the boring
file under version control. To do this you can use darcs setpref
to set the value `boringfile' to the name of your desired boring
file (e.g. verb-darcs setpref boringfile .boring-, where
verb-.boring- is the repository path of a file that has been
darcs added to your repository). The boringfile preference
overrides verb!_darcsprefsboring!, so be sure to copy that file
to the boringfile.  You can also set up a `boring' regexps file
in your home directory, named verb!~.darcsboring!, on MS
Windows~ref{ms_win}, which will be used with all of your darcs
repositories.  Any file not already managed by darcs and whose
repository path (such as verb!manual/index.html!) matches any of
the boring regular expressions is considered boring. The boring
file is used to filter the files p