Since you can not delete a workspace or reference tree in AccuRev (only deactivate it), we want to create local copy of a streams contents, without using those.
I could ofcourse use something like accurev hist in combination with accurev cat, but that sounds like an awful workaround for such a basic functionality.
So, I wonder, is there an easy command to do this?
I only want to use this in my Jenkins CI environment to check the sources (compile, run tests, etcetera). I never have to push any changes back to AccuRev, so the AccuRev gurus would probably recommend using a reference tree. However, I want to create these dynamically and they will only be used once. It does not seem like a good idea to clutter the AccuRev server with thousands of unused reference trees.
You can use the accurev pop command to do exactly what you want. Within Jenkins, this is the equivalent of using the option of "Neither" a workspace or reference tree if you are using the AccuRev plug-in for Jenkins.
If you prefer to script this yourself, you can use accurev pop -R -v <stream-name> -L <some-directory-location> /./ where you substitute in your stream name and the directory location to which you want to write. The /./ in the command tells AccuRev to populate the depot root directory and -R is to recurse the entire contents below that. You can specify another directory below that level using its depot relative path.