Tags: clearcase
Integrating a better file comparer than clearcase offers
January 26th, 2010Wonderful though Clearcase is, its support tools leave a lot to be desired. Take the file comparison application that comes bundled. It only flags lines which have changed, so you often have to spend a couple of moments scanning the line to spot the chan… more »
Finding which files are on a clearcase branch without a label
January 25th, 2010The 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 »
Checking in a directory structure under Clearcase
September 21st, 2009In 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 »
Finding my clearcase checkins between 2 dates
June 26th, 2009The 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 »
Finding files that have not been added to ClearCase
November 20th, 2008Clearcase is the best source controller I have ever used; and I have used most of them (free and commercial)!
One thing that I need to do quite often is look for files that have not been placed under source control yet. After a session of checkins I w… more »