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 |
79 |
A-Z,a-z,0-9 |
cannot begin with a digit or with "." |
user |
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 |
255 |
name validation performed by the operating system |
applied by the operating system |
pathname of workspace |
127 |
name validation performed by the operating system |
applied by the operating system |