What is composite baseline in UCM and when it will be used?

The reference on “composite Baselines” is: “Best practices for using composite baselines in UCM“. Introduced in ClearCase v2002, composite baselines are a mechanism for grouping baselines into a collection. One baseline is designated as the composite, and other baselines become members of the composite You do not necessarily have to use composite baselines when you … Read more

Problems with clear case plugin eclipse

I have no problem with that plugin (except the MVFS layer does not work for now, since dynamic views are not yet supported on windows7), provided you do have the exact tree yourEclipse eclipse plugins com.rational.clearcase.help_7.5.0.v200910221234 com.rational.clearcase.activities_7.5.0.v200910221234 com.rational.clearcase_7.5.0.v200910221234 features com.rational.clearcase_7.5.0.v200910221234 com.ibm.rational.clearcase.ccrefresh_7.5.0.v200910221234 com.ibm.rational.clearcase.ccimport.feature_7.1.0.v200905202348–08422A2_242663 So you can start and check if you do see this configuration. Note: … Read more

Find files in Clearcase view newer than a specific date?

This is a cleartool find request with a time-based directive from the query language: (See Additional examples of the cleartool find command) cleartool find <vobtag> -element “{created_since(target-data-time)}” -print That will list elements (instead of versions, which would display many checkins versions for every file) This should work for snapshot or dynamic views, UCM or not … Read more

How to search files by label

cleartool find is a good start. You can execute those anywhere within your (snapshot or dynamic) view To generate the list of those elements which contain a version with a predetermined label (REL1) attached, use the following syntax of the cleartool find command: UNIX and Linux: % cleartool find -all -element ‘{lbtype_sub(REL1)}’ -print Windows: cleartool … Read more

how to find files in a given branch

You can quickly list all files from a particular branch: cleartool find . -type f -branch “brtype(abranch)” -print I would recommend combining that with: -user to limit to a particular user, in case several users use the same branch. cleartool find . -type f -branch “brtype(abranch)” -user aloginname -print -created_since filter, to find all elements … Read more