Disabling .ccexclude Files

Question

We are developing on Visual Studio 2008 with Clearcase integration. Some of our project files have rules which include all files (**) within a particular directory. Sometimes this results in Clearcase creating .ccexclude files. The IBM documentation on .ccexclude files, says that there is a way to disable the creation of these files, but doesn't document how.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

.CCEXCLUDE (ClearCase Exclusion File)

When using the ClearCase and VS .NET Integration, a file called .ccexclude will be created if you choose the option "Exclude from Project" for a particular project file from within the Solution Explorer window.
This file is simply a reference file that ClearCase uses to identify what files should not be included with specific source controlling operations, builds, etc.
This option can be enabled and disabled at the preference of the developer(s).

The last part means there should be a Visual Studio ClearCase plugin preference (i.e. a preference within Visual Studio) allowing you to specify if you want a .CCEXCLUDE file to be created/updated each time you exclude a file from a (Visual Studio) project.

Note: that .CCEXCLUDE file is not a file known by ClearCase, but only by the Visual Studio ClearCase integration plugin, in order to not propose any checkout or "add to source control" operation for certain files excluded from the project.