How to cleanup view private files from my view

Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under Clearcase | Leave a Comment

The quick way is to just remove the view and re-create it if you want to get rid of all your view-private files/directories/links. If, on the otherhand, you want to keep some of those view-privates, you’ll have to find all the view-private files, which is different depending on if you use dynamic vs. snapshot views. [...]

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How to remove checkouts to a view that no longer exists

Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under Clearcase | Leave a Comment

First figure out the UUID of the view by running: % cleartool describe -long vob:vobtag versioned object base “vobtag” created 31-Dec-00.16:23:00 by ClearCase VOB admin account (vobadm.staff) VOB family feature level: 2 VOB storage host:pathname “someplace” VOB storage global pathname “someplace” database schema version: 53 VOB ownership: owner someone group some group Additional groups: … [...]

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What does “eclipsed” mean in clearcase

Posted on July 12, 2008 - Filed Under Clearcase | Leave a Comment

An eclipsed element is seen only in dynamic views. It’s basically when a view-private file/directory has the same name as an element in that same directory. Views always display view-private items first. It often occurs when one or more developers are working in the same area adding new features (for example: new classes/packages/namespaces for java/.net [...]

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text_file_delta: Error: “foo.c” is not a ‘text file’: it contains a line exceeding 8000 bytes

Posted on July 6, 2008 - Filed Under Clearcase | Leave a Comment

This error message indicates that you have a line that contains more than 8000 characters. Unfortunately, the text_file_delta type manager cannot handle lines greater than 8000 characters. You have two choices as to how to deal with this: Insert line breaks so the length of every line is less than 8000 characters. Modify the file [...]

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Clearfsimport examples

Posted on July 3, 2008 - Filed Under Clearcase | Leave a Comment

The clearfsimport command reads the specified file system source objects and places them in the target VOB. This command uses magic files to determine which element type to use for each element created (see the cc.magic reference page). The source and target directories may not be the same; to create an element from a view-private [...]

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