The following accurev commands use the value of
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS to filter names:
These commands apply to the entire workspace if you don’t specify any filenames/pathnames or wildcard patterns on the command line:
When applying these commands to an entire workspace, the accurev tool, running on the client machine, uses
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS to filter the list of filenames
before sending the list to the AccuRev Server process. This can significantly reduce the amount of network traffic, and also reduce the amount of file-status computation the Server process must perform.
The AccuRev GUI also uses the ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS environment variable. Working in the searches pane of the File Browser corresponds to using the various “whole-workspace” forms of the
accurev stat command. Thus,
ACCUREV_IGNORE_ELEMS is used by these search criteria: