The p4 reviews command is intended for use in external programs that call Perforce.
p4 reviews -c changelist# lists each user who has subscribed to review any files included in the submitted changelist
changelist#. The alternate form, (
p4 reviews file...), lists the users who have subscribed to review any files that match the file patterns provided as arguments. If you provide no arguments to
p4 reviews, all users who have subscribed to review any files are listed.
It is possible to enter values in the Reviews: field that mean something originally unintended by Perforce in order to create more generalized daemons. At Perforce, for example, we run a jobs daemon that sends email to any users who have subscribed to review jobs anytime a new job is submitted. Since there's nothing built into Perforce that allows users to subscribe to review jobs, we co-opt a single line of the
Reviews: field: Perforce sends job email to any users who have subscribed to review the non-existent path
//depot/jobs/ .