AccuRev User's Guide (GUI)

The searches pane enables you to see “just the files you care about”, instead of “all the files”.
Which files do you care about? In general, a workspace contains a copy of the entire source base,
which might include hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of files. But for a given development
project, you’ll probably modify only a handful of the files. You need the others for general
reference, and to enable you to perform software builds and tests in the workspace.
For example, you may have changed files in several different directories, and for each one kept a
private version. So you may “care about” all the files in the workspace whose status flag is (kept).
Use the Kept search to see exactly the information you want:
choosing a search criterion displays all
matching files in the details pane
searches pane
contains list of
search criteria
Note that the Kept search displays complete pathnames within the workspace hierarchy. That’s
because a searches processes the entire workspace, not just in a particular subdirectory.
Similarly, the Modified search makes it simple to locate all files in the workspace that have a
(modified) status flag. The GUI provides quite a few search criteria; you can always locate all the
files you care about, simply and quickly.
Editing Source Files
To edit a file, right-click it in the details pane and select Edit from the context menu. A doubleclick
might bring up a text editor, but it might attempt to execute the file as a program instead.
(Either way, be sure to click on the name, not on the icon.)
You can also start up a text editor or integrated development environment (IDE) independently of
the AccuRev GUI, and edit files in that context.
After saving your changes to the text, you may need to invoke the View > Refresh command in
the GUI window, in order to update the files’ status flags. Function key F5 is a keyboard shortcut
to this command.
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