clearcase

Migrating Clearcase to X

I was asked to choose an open-source alternative to Clearcase-UCM, and I need an advice what would be the best match. Given below are some parameters I've collected: Half of the development teams use the Integration view, development view, rebase and delivery methodology. The rest just work straight on their integration stream with pri...

Clearcase Issue

Hi, I am responsible for clearcase at my project. I do not have much experience. My issue is , right now our project structure in cc is a project with PROD,PV, ST, DV streams as seen here; Link to the screenshot Now as you can see we have individual stream for each developer under DV stream. The way we deliver code up stream is one b...

clear case and visual studio2008

I am working on new project visual studio 2008 and ClearCase 7.01 (base ClearCase) as source control. I am very new to .Net environment, my questions: For deployment, how to get the source from clear case? My idea is to create a branch , apply a label to this and use Nant or Cruise Control for compilation. For a small work in one sour...

how to find out all the checked out files in a branch

Hi Guys, As title, could anyone of you give me a working instruction to solve that problem ? thanks a lot! ...

Finding most commonly edited files in clearcase.

We are currently planning a quality improvement exercise and i would like to target the most commonly edited files in our clearcase vobs. Since we have just been through a bug fixing phase the most commonly edited files should give a good indication of where the most bug prone code is, and therefore the most in need of quality improvment...

how to find out all the activities happend in a branch in the last month?

Hi Guys, My problem is that The code in the branch I'm working in for some reason is corrupted now , but I didn't make any label in the branch so It's hard to "roll back" the code to a valid status. But I'm sure a month ago the code is in the quite healthy status , so I'd like to know all the activities happen in the branch in the la...

UCM Clear Case: Hiereachy of streams in one project vs multiple projects

We have a project and are about to add a new piece of functionality to otherwise stable codebase without any major changes going on except defect fixing. The plan is not develop the new feature separately for a while (probably a month) doing intermediate builds and testing and as the feature is finished and the quality is acceptable merg...

Adding Custom Controls dll to Visual Studio ToolBox From Clearcase's Dynamic Views

I have a custom control dll that I saved into my network drive. I want to add it to Visual Studio toolbox, it came back and said Access is Denied. If I placed it in my desktop then I don't have any problem. Can you tell me what am I missing? Update: After further trials, the problems appear to be the files are in ClearCase's Dynamic...

problem while compiling java code on network drive, it creating class files in lowercase

i am using clear-case source control, i created my vob repository(which has my java source code) on the network drive, when i rum my javac compiler on the source it compiles fine but it is generating class files in lowercase where it should start with uppercase letter. i have seen the code every thing mentioned perfect. then i tried to c...

do any one have batch file to apply and create label or base line in clearcase

here i need a batch file which can apply and create label or base line to the versioned elements in clear-case project, please provide me if any one have this ...

how do i assign the arguments in the cleartool command in batch file

i have written the batch file as follows v: cd view/vob/component set /p comment="enter comment: " set /p base_line="enter baseline: " cleartool mkbl -c "%comment%" %base_line% cd\ c:` even though i assign arguments the clear tool command cant taking it, please do any one know the solution for this ...

Evil twin problem and subtractive merge

Hi; Could anyone explain what is a Evil Twin and Subtractive merge in Clearcase? ...

Clearcase UCM - Cross delivering vs. delivering upwards?

We have two Clearcase UCM streams in a hierarchy at the same level (i.e. same parent stream). If the two child streams are both rebased to the same parent baseline, does that mean that Delivering the activities of both streams up to the parent (one, then the other) Would be equivalent to: Delivering the activities of one child str...

Continuous Integration with Teamcity and Clearcase

Has anybody successfully integrated Clearcase with Teamcity (which advertises Clearcase support) to realize a productive continuous integration build environment on a decent size project? ...

ClearCase UCM - best practices using components...

We are migrating a fairly large codebase from VSS to Clearcase w\ UCM and are considering organizing our source into one or more components within a single project. What best practices\potential pitfalls should we keep in mind? The source is organized into layers (data layer, business layer, GUI layer). The team is fairly small, dev...

how to change views with clearcase on eclipse

I'm using eclipse to work on a HUGE C project and it works generally well except for not being able to change views. I create a new project and set the project source to the clearcase vob directory and it works just fine except it stores the project files in the vob. then when I change views the project cant be opened because its meta-d...

Setting up TeamCity to work with ClearCase

I'm trying to setup TeamCity to work with ClearCase for continuous integration, and I've been having a few problems. TeamCity is complaining that it cannot build the patch for the build. I've been scouring the internet for information on ClearCase and TeamCity, and there is a surprisingly small amount of information on the topic. Has any...

ClearTool Error: Operation "get cleartext" failed: Permission denied.

When trying to compile a project with TeamCity, I am getting an error from cleartool: "get cleartext" failed: Permission denied. The command that is failing is a call to cleartool get: cleartool get -to C:\TeamCity\temp\cc_35875temp V:\andrew_CI_view\My_vob\MyProject@@\main\branch\7\Apps\main\branch\1\MyProject.Apps.FileTransferUt...

Clearcase Remote Client in Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit client?

I've been trying to get the CCRC 7.0.1 client working inside Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 client. Right now, it works inside VS2005 on the same client. I've been following the instructions on this support page from IBM, but haven't had any luck. Has anyone gotten VS2008 working with the CCRC 7.0.1 on a 64-bit...

Clearcase UCM - Working with streams and components, how?

My co-workers and I are relatively need to the stream idea with Clearcase UCM. Currently management has created streams for each functional software package, each of which has defined interfaces and lives within a layered architecture. Developers create child streams depending on the package they are working in, and attempt to develop th...