AccuRev’s pathname optimization facility provides for faster performance by allowing certain objects to be ignored during various commands — notably
(external)-status objects during whole-workspace searches. The value of environment variable
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS is a pathname pattern — or several patterns, separated by
SPACEs; objects whose pathnames match a pattern are ignored by the various commands.
AccuRev now supports specification of objects to be ignored on a per-directory basis, in addition to the global specification in
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS. One or more directories in a workspace can contain a text file named
.acignore. An
.acignore file works the same way as
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS, with these exceptions: