Question

I am working with a clearcase snapshot view under windows. I am trying to download the content of a file file.txt which is not loaded by my current configspec.
My snapshot view is c:\view.

The following command
cleartool get -to toto.txt someCorrectVOBdir\file.txt

works perfectly when called from c:\view, and fails when called from any non-view directory with the error
cleartool: Error: Operation "get cleartext" failed: not a ClearCase object.

Why? How can clearcase knows that the current directory is not a view directory ?

Answer 1

ClearCase check for a view.dat hidden file, either in the current directory or in a parent directory.

If it finds one, the current directory is part of a snapshot view.
if it doesn’t find one, this isn’t a ClearCase view.

If the view.dat is somehow erased and lost, it can be regenerated.