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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 v5.8.8                                      2006-12-28                               SVK::Help::View(3)