Working in a Reference Trees Tab
Controlling Which Reference Trees are Displayed
Controlling the Data Displayed for Each Reference Tree
The Reference Trees tab displays summary information on some or all of the reference trees A directory tree in users’ disk storage that instantiates a particular dynamic stream or snapshot. It contains a copy of the current version of each element in the stream or snapshot. A reference tree based on a dynamic stream can be updated, to incorporate the stream's recent changes. in the AccuRev repository.
Choose Admin > Reference Trees from the GUI main menu.
The Reference Trees tab contains a table with these columns:
(appears if Show including hidden is checked) Active indicates that the reference tree is available for use. Inactive indicates that the reference tree is currently deactivated (but can be reactivated).
Name
The name of the reference tree.
Location
The pathname of the reference tree on the machine where it resides.
The name or IP address of the machine where the reference tree resides.
Stream#
The integer stream-ID of the stream on which the reference tree is based. This number is unique with the reference tree's depot only, not across the entire repository.
(appears if Show details is checked) The depot's transaction level The number of the most recently completed transaction for a particular depot. See update level. at the time the Update command was most recently invoked on the reference tree. Update attempts to load versions created in transactions up to and including the target transaction. If the Target Transaction and Update Level are the same, the reference tree's most recent update completed successfully.
Update Level
(appears if Show details is checked) The highest-numbered transaction whose versions have been copied to the reference tree in an update The operation (update command) that copies new versions of elements into a workspace from its parent stream..
Type
(appears if Show details is checked) The integer 3, indicating that the type of data structure is a reference tree.
EOL
(appears if Show details is checked) The type of line terminator used when an update copies text-file versions to the reference tree: Auto (line terminator used by host machine's OS), UNIX (NL), or Windows (CR-LF).
You can apply filters to control the amount of data displayed in the reference trees table, and you can perform a number of operations on a selected reference tree. See also:
AccuRev's standard table-manipulation operations
Show including hidden
If checked, the table includes reference trees that have been deactivated with the Remove command. This also adds a Status column; deactivated reference trees have Inactive status, and are shaded.
Show details
If checked, the table includes these columns: Target Transaction, Update Level, Type, and EOL.
You can choose any of the following commands from the context menu of a selected reference tree:
Open
In this release, the Open command is disabled. You cannot view the contents of a reference tree using the AccuRev GUI.
Edit
Modify the configuration of the reference tree.
Bring back into active service a reference tree that was previously deactivated with the Remove command.
Deactivate a reference tree. The reference tree cannot be Update'd.
You can use the Reactivate command to bring back a Remove'd reference tree.
Click the New button at the bottom of the Reference Trees tab to invoke the New Reference Tree wizard.