Everyone keeps saying "It's simple you can merge [Clearcase] main\LATEST into your private branch" but I'm pretty sure that almost no one understands what this involves. In fact several people have spoken to me with problems relating to just that. more »

It's one of those fiddly things to recursively check-in an entire directory structure under Clearcase, and each time I do it I have to remember how. So I'm putting it into my long term memory here! Move to the parent directory of the directory you… more »

The clearcase reports that come out of the box only let you find out the files that have changed between 2 labels. What if you haven't applied the other label yet, or you are writing release notes and the official labelling hasn't taken place yet? If yo… more »

In order to have an effective build environment we must check-in all the resources needed to build the project from scratch; this includes support libraries and support applications. For example one of my projects arrives as an installable deliverable, b… more »

The cleartool has many facets, one of which is find. The syntax of clearcase's version of find is similar to that of GNU's find with a couple of clearcase additions that allow you to search specific clearcase attributes. It is beyond the scope of this do… more »