User-Specified Names for AccuRev Entities

AccuRev deals with many kinds of named entities: files, directories, pathnames, depots, users, and so on. The table below details the restrictions on user-defined names for the various entities. Note that all names are case-sensitive; for example, user john is not the same as user John .

Kind

Maximum Name Length

Characters Allowed in Name

Character Restrictions

depot
stream
snapshot
workspace
reference tree

79

A-Z,a-z,0-9
- _ . + @ SPACE

cannot begin with a digit or with "."

user
group

96

same as above

must begin with a letter

password

19

any

none (caution: this means that special characters, such as BACKSPACE are valid password characters)

pathname of slice
(of a depot or replica)

255

name validation performed by the operating system

applied by the operating system

pathname of workspace
pathname of reference tree

127

name validation performed by the operating system

applied by the operating system