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.

       DDEEFFIINNIINNGG AA VVIIEEWW

       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)