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!

1. Move to the parent directory of the directory you would like to check-in.

   cd c:\my\local\folder c:\my\local\folder> dir 10/02/2011 14:58 <DIR> . 10/02/2011 14:58 <DIR> .. 10/02/2011 14:51 <DIR> dir_i_want_to_check_in 19/01/2011 15:35 97 file_i_want_to_check_in.txt

2. Pick a location to check-in to.
3. Ensure that the folder you are checking-in to is itself checked-in.
4. The following will check-in all files in the current directory:

   clearfsimport -rec -nset * Z:\path\to\dir

5. The following will check-in the single specified directory in the current directory:

   clearfsimport -rec -nset dir_i_want_to_check_in Z:\path\to\dir

The -rec stands for recursive, so directories with all their contents will be checked-in. The -nset stands for no set modification time. If this option is not set then only the Clearcase Administrator can check in the files because after the check in it modifies the time of the checked-in file to that of the original file. Changing the modification time of a Clearcase element requires Clearcase administration rights. To be honest I can’t think of a time when you are that bothered about the modification time of the file, so we nicknamed this flag the “make it work flag” :) After you have checked everything in, you may want to update the permissions so that any executables can be run from a clearcase drive.

cleartool protect -rec -chmod 777 Z:\path\to\dir\dir_i_want_to_check_in