AccuRev CLI User's Guide

Following is an alphabetical listing of the AccuRev user preferences.
ACCUREV_COMMAND_LOGFILE
The accurev CLI tool checks whether this variable is defined and contains the pathname of a
text file on the client machine. (So does the accurevw tool, which forwards commands from
the AccuRev GUI to the AccuRev Server.) If the pathname is valid, a timestamped copy of the
complete command line is appended to the log file when the command begins execution;
another timestamped entry is written to the log file when the command completes. (The
results of the command are not written to the log file.)
ACCUREV_CONSOLE
(used by AccuRev Server only) If this variable is set to 1, the AccuRev Server sends console
messages to STDOUT in addition to the acserver.log file. (Alternative: start the AccuRev
Server with the command-line argument console.)
ACCUREV_DIFF_FLAGS
diff command: the command-line options to be passed to the file-comparison program. See
also AC_DIFF_CLI.
ACCUREV_HOME
(used by the “AccuRev login” user-authentication scheme) The full pathname of the parent
directory of the .accurev subdirectory. Setting this variable overrides AccuRev’s automatic
determination of this subdirectory’s location.
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS
A SPACE-separated list of up to 50 pathname patterns used in AccuRev’s pathname
optimization facility. See Pathname Optimization: ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS and
.acignore on page 27 of AccuRev Technical Notes.
ACCUREV_PRINCIPAL, AC_PRINCIPAL
(used only by the “traditional” user-authentication scheme) The AccuRev principal-name to
be used as the user identity for accurev commands. It is usually not necessary to set this
variable, because accurev can use system-level EVs to establish your AccuRev user identity.
The order of precedence (highest to lowest) for EVs that establish user identity is
ACCUREV_PRINCIPAL, AC_PRINCIPAL, USER, LOGNAME, USERNAME.
ACCUREV_TOPDIR
Set by the start command to the pathname at which the specified workspace or reference tree
is located.
ACCUREV_USE_MOD_TIME
If this variable is set to 1, the AccuRev commands co, pop, purge, revert, and update
preserve timestamps when copying versions from the repository into a workspace.
ACCUREV_WATCHDOG_FAST_FAIL_DISABLE
If this variable is set to 1, the AccuRev Server Watchdog process never stops trying to restart
the AccuRev Server process, no matter how many Server failures it detects. By default, the
Watchdog stops trying after detecting 5 failures in a 3-minute timespan.
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