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Raihan
Raihan

Reputation: 10395

ClearCase: are element names view dependent?

I am running the cleartool subcommand diffbl -versions between two baselines. But the output looks different depending on the view I am running the command from. The difference is in the path name of the elements. For example the same file my_filemane located in /vobs/my_component/my_directory/my_subdirectory/ as seen by two views on two streams my_stream_1 and my_stream_2 shows path names:

/vobs/my_component/my_directory/my_subdirectory/my_filename@@/main/my_stream_1/1
/vobs/my_component/my_directory/my_subdirectory@@main/my_stream_2/my_stream_1/10/my_filename/main/my_stream_1/1

In the fist case its easy to determine the location of the file, is there was no version control, by taking the substring between /vobs/ and @@. Is there any easy way (a cleartool subcommand maybe) to find the same from the second case?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 69

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323573

The difference comes from the visibility of the file within the view from which you are doing the diffbl.

Considering the extended pathname from the second path mentions:

 main/my_stream_2/my_stream_1/10

, your best move is to redo said diffbl from a view associated with stream1 in order to get a simpler path for that particular file.
But anyway, since that file has no version in stream2, it will always be displayed with a long and complicated extended pathname.

Upvotes: 1

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