AccuRev CLI User's Guide

This example illustrates a common (underlap) scenario: john brings an old version,
brass32_dvt_mary/12, of the element into his workspace, using the Send to Workspace (CLI:
co) command; this old version is an ancestor of the version currently in the backing stream of
john’s workspace.
Techniques for Selecting Elements
The following sections describe techniques for specifying the elements to be processed by a
command, based on AccuRev status, on filename, or both.
Selecting Elements Based on their Status
A few command-line options are recognized by many of the accurev commands, and work
identically (or nearly identically) in each command. These options act as filters, selecting a subset
of the depot’s elements based on their element status. This makes it easy to select sets of elements
for a command to operate on. You can use these filter options alone or in combination with
filename arguments. Examples:
Invoke the keep command on all items in the current directory:
accurev keep *
Invoke the keep command on all items in the current directory with (modified) status.
accurev keep -m *
Invoke the add command on all items in the current directory with (external) status and a .png
filename suffix.
accurev add -x *.png
Invoke the stat command on all items in the workspace, in all directories.
accurev stat -a
The following sections describe useful scenarios of selecting a set of elements in your workspace,
based on the elements’ current status. Be sure to read the section Performance Considerations for
Element-Selection Commands on page 15, also.
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