ClearCase Commands

ClearCase Commands
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IBM Rational ClearCase is a powerful, elegant version control system.

Since it's heritage is Unix, the manual is ... obscure. These battle tested commands should get you up and running...

Before you dive in take note!

'cl' is the accepted shortform for 'ClearCase' / 'Cleartool' when entering package commands.

A period in a sample command line is not punctuation, it's meant to be typed!

Bon appetit.

Basics
01 To Get Help
02 To enter cleartool.
03 To exit cleartool.
04 To navigate inside cleartool.
05 To enter graphics mode (slow but gorgeous).

File Checkouts and Checkins
06 To Check out a file.
07 To cancel a checkout.
08 To check out a previous version of a file.
09 To find what you have checked out.
10 To find out what other files are checked out.
11 To Check in a file.
12 To checkin or checkout multiple files.

Labels
13 To list existing labels.
14 To observe the naming conventions for branches and labels.
15 To Make a label.
16 To label a version of a file.
17 To apply a label to the entire source tree.
18 To move an existing label down to the latest elements.
19 To see if a label is on the latest version of a file or on a branch.

File and Version Information
20 To change the comment for a revision.
21 To change the content description for a file.
22 To list the history (versions with comments) of a file.
23 To find out what files have been worked on since ....
24 To find out the file_type of a file.
25 To setup cleartool to send email on a file change.

Directory Operations
26 To add a new directory to the source tree.
27 To rename a directory in the /gl/vobs/netman/src tree.
28 To rename a vob directory or element.

File Operations : Add Move Rename
29 To Add a new file to an existing directory.
30 To use symbolic links avoid duplicating an archive file in different directories.
31 To move an atria file from one directory to another.
32 To make a view private copy of a file.
33 To remove 'rm' a Cleartool archive file.
34 To look at a file that has been Cleartool 'rm'd'.

Branches
35 To List existing branches.
36 To Make a branch.
37 To merge a branch back to the mainline.

Releases
38 To build a release.
39 To obtain a directory listing of the source tree for a release.
40 To obtain a list of file changes since the last release.

Administrator
41 To remove (destroy) the latest version(s) of a file.
42 To look at your configspec.
43 To change your configspec.