SVK::Help::View(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation SVK::Help::View(3)
NAME
SVK::Help::View - Introduction to svk view support
DESCRIPTION
[Views are a BETA-quality feature. We're very interested in bug reports and feeback about them.]
svk allows you to define multiple different views for an existing repository.
DEFINING A VIEW
views are stored as property "svk:view:NAME" on a directory. Suppose you have "svk:view:ptest" set on "//project", you can refer to it by
"//^project/ptest". That is, a caret, and then path holding the property, a slash, and the name of the view.
You can now use "//^project/ptest" as a target for normal svk commands like ls, checkout and diff.
Here is an example for the value of the property:
&:/project/trunk
-*
dir1 dir1
util src/deep/util
The first line is the base of the view. The &: sign means the root of a mirror, so the view can still be used even if other people
mirrored the repository to a different path in their local repository.
The second line means taking out all the content under the root. And then take "dir1" back, stick the directory "src/deep/util" to "util"
under the view. So running "svk ls //^project/ptest" you should see:
dir1/
util/
perl v5.10.0 2008-08-04 SVK::Help::View(3)
