To borrow from a common print journalism trick, consider this the cleaning out the desk drawers of my AccuRev mind. Or if you tend to avoid newspaper columnists, especially sports ones, then let’s just call this a random “did you know” or “what’s new” post. I think the last time I did one of these was in the AccuRev Version 4.5 days, and we now entered the days of AccuRev 4.9, so there might be a few things tossed in here that aren’t necessarily fresh off the presses…
AccuRev 4.9 introduces the long sought after “stale filter”. Actually, it’s an Update Preview search, but it shows not just (stale) files, but also anything that will change at update time, like moves and new elements. You can even perform actions in that search pane, like Diffs, prior to updating…
AccuRev 4.9 also brings you the -t <time_spec> argument for both stat and pop. This lets you provide a transaction or time stamp to the command so you can reference a configuration of code at a point in time without having to utilize a time-based stream.
Sticking with command-line tidbits, you can now use pop -D to populate elements without including their entire directory structure. Very useful in situations where you might have different applications contained under a root folder yet want to populate them at a top level.
Another really helpful enhancement is to the Deep Overlap search. Now when you Merge a file that is in Deep Overlap, AccuRev changes the status to (kept)(member) in the filter so that you know which files have been operated on. You also have the ability to promote from this search window, and subsequently the promoted file will no longer appear in the filter.
If you haven’t started using the AccuRev WebUI, you’re really missing out. One lesser known capability in the WebUI is the ability to take a regular query, Group by any field, and automatically convert it to a bar, line, or pie chart. This report can then be sent and accessed as a URL, and obviously can be viewed by users without installing the classic GUI.
To further bind the classic GUI and WebUI together, AccuWork issues in the classic GUI now contain a hyperlink “Issue URL” which takes you directly to the URL rendering of the issue in the WebUI. And for those with a very extensive stream structure, have you checked out the St\ream Filter to personalize and only display streams that you care about?
For folks running Continuous Integration, or for those who just want to be able to use command-line to see what’s changed in a stream over time – including inherited content! – I think you’ll be happy with this one. You can use the accurev diff command to compare the contents of a single stream with itself over a period of time, without having to create a time-based stream.
Have you noticed that when using the Stream Issue Mode in the StreamBrowser, you now see Incomplete Issues right in the “Show Active…” box attached to streams?
And lastly for now, bonus points for anyone who can comment here to point out the AccuRev command-line typo that still works as if it is spelled correctly. AccuRevers or former ones need not apply 
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