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How can I merge my files when the folder structure has changed using Borland StarTeam?

I'm in the process of refactoring some code which includes moving folders around, and I would like to regularly merge to keep things current. What is the best way to merge after I've moved folders around in my working copy? ...

Override Working Folder with Starteam/CruiseControl

For some reason, I can't seem to get CruiseControl.net to checkout code to anywhere but the starteam working folder for a specificed view. I've tried both overrideViewWorkingDir and overrideFolderWorkingDir, and neither seem to work. Has anyone been able to do this? ...

Automating DB Object Migrations from Source Control

I'm looking for some "Best Practices" for automating the deployment of Stored Procedures/Views/Functions/Table changes from source control. I'm using StarTeam & ANT so the labeling is taken care of; what I am looking for is how some of you have approached automating the pull of these objects from source - not necessarily StarTeam. I'd l...

How do I get a particular labeled version of a folder in Borland StarTeam?

I'm about to perform a bunch of folder moving operations in StarTeam (including some new nesting levels) and I would like to set a label so that I can roll back in case of issues. I figured out how to set a label on a folder and all its children, but I couldn't figure out how to get the version of that folder corresponding to that parti...

Testing StarTeam operations

In a Java application I need to checkout files from Borland Starteam 2006 R2 using Starteam API by various parameters (date, label). Is there any framework that helps to write automatic tests for such functionality? ...

CruiseControl + Starteam: not picking up all files

Our CruiseControl system checks out from starteam. I've noticed that it is sometimes not checking out new versions of files, only added files. Does anyone know why this is? ...

Calculate client-server time difference in Borland Starteam server 8

Problem. I need a way to find Starteam server time through Starteam Java SDK 8.0. Version of server is 8.0.172 so method Server.getCurrentTime() is not available since it was added only in server version 9.0. Motivation. My application needs to use views at specific dates. So if there's some difference in system time between client (whe...

Starteam 2005 COM API

Has anyone worked with the StarTeam COM API (Specifically, intergrating with C#). I need to write a helper function that returns a directory structure out of Starteam, but all I've been able to retrieve using this API has been a list of views. Has anyone else tried this? ...

Is there an easy way to do a complete migration from CVS to StarTeam?

I'm currently maintaining a CVS repository for source control. There is a push afoot to move to StarTeam. It has already been purchased and is a corporate standard for most projects. I was told by the corporate owners of the StarTeam servers that there is no known way to do a complete migration of our current CVS repository to StarTea...

Strategy to migrate from StarTeam 5 to Subversion?

I need to migrate a large project from StarTeam 5 to Subversion, and I'd like to keep snapshots of (at least) 5-10 of the major releases. I've considered the following: Manual or scripted export/import of each snapshot. Advantages: straightforward, easy to select labeled/dated versions. Disadvantages: time-consuming, does not preser...

Version control server performance when using CruiseControl (StarTeam or alternatives)

We are using CruiseControl with a StarTeam server and having problems with the StarTeam server crashing. We are wondering if we are hitting the server too hard. Across 3 CruiseControl machines and a total of about 30 projects, we are logging into StarTeam and checking for modifications every minute or so. Most of our projects have ~20...

How to check in/out of StarTeam via VBScript?

According to Borland you can access StarTeam via VBScript. I was wondering if anyone had any sample code showing how to do this. ...

Problem with Starteam and Cruise Control.Net

Does anyone have problem getting files from starteam using the cruise control tool for setting up automatic build job?? The script seems to run fine but fail after some time with the error message Error occurred: Unable to read data from the network: the connection to the StarTeam server has been lost. I am not sure whether the proble...

Cruise Control .Net server unable to detect modifications done on Starteam

Hi Im using Cruise Control .Net 1.4 for Continuous integration and have installed it on my Windows 2000 desktop. I have Nant 0.85 for the Build. My Source control is in Borland Starteam 2005. I have .Net 2003 framework installed which i use for creating VB.Net windows applications. I have installed CCnet and I think my Ccnet.config file ...

Starteam will not check-in a new file added to a project.

I am using Visual Studio 2005 and StarTeam 2008 (cross-platform client and VS integration). At some point, I added an 'App.config' to a project. I notice now that this file will not check-in. The 'StarTeam Pending Checkins' window in VS reports the file 'Not in View'. Selecting it for check in and clicking 'Check In Files' causes a dia...

Starteam "Unknown" files

We have a StarTeam view that has two files that are in the "Unknown" state – does anyone understand why they are in this state and/or how we can get them out of the state? Is deleting them and re-adding them with a different name the only solution? Note that if you check out these two files (regularly or using “force checkout”), they w...

StarTeam view/branching approach

We're looking for some advice on our StarTeam configuration. We have a project that is used by two main customers. We share a common code base but we want to be able to do development for one customer at a time. Does anyone know what the best way to do this is using StarTeam? I would think you would want to do something like this: -...

Migrating from 'file sharing' paradigm in StarTeam to a DVCS like GIT?

StarTeam has file sharing between views. Basically a view in StarTeam can share individual files from other views. It can then branch the files as well. Are there ways to migrate views in StarTeam that share hundreds of files with each other? Anyone have experience with this? Assuming that the only solution is to convert one StarTeam ...

How to use the Starteam vcmutility to automate a selective rebase?

In Borland Starteam I would like to automate a very simple rebase that only repins files (i.e. ignores everything else - assuming to be done with the wizard). Looking at the StarTeam Help "VCMUtility Session Options" I would like to set my DefaultAction for everything to ignore -- except source.modified should be repin. I do not see an...

StarTeam not checking out to working folder?

I'm using StarTeam 4.1 and I'm trying to use the command line version of StarTeam to checkout all the files of the folder. But for some reason, instead of checking out to C:\Installation, it checks out to C:\400\Installation. In the GUI, StarTeam clearly states that the complete working folder path is C:\Installation. If I run stcmd.e...