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.

Note: In the table below, “characters” means NON-NULL characters. Do not subtract 1 to account for the terminating NUL.

Kind	Maximum Name Length	Characters Allowed in Name	Character Restrictions
depot stream snapshot workspace reference tree	79	A-Z,a-z,0-9 - _ . + @ SPACE	can begin with a digit (provided there is at least one non-digit in the name), must not begin with a dot (.), and must not include either a slash (/) or a backslash.
user group	99	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 (of a depot or replica)	255	name validation performed by the operating system	applied by the operating system
pathname of workspace pathname of reference tree	127	name validation performed by the operating system	applied by the operating system
segment (between slashes) of element pathname	255	name validation performed by the operating system	applied by the operating system   (Not to be confused with the "multi-segment" feature of AccuRev change packages.)