Question

My company has recently switched from using Perforce to Rational ClearCase for version control.

In the P4Win client it was possible to select View -> Entire Depot and browse depot files that were outside my client spec and this was useful for figuring out exactly what I needed to add to my client spec.

Significantly this avoided the need to synch the files from the depot before viewing them, and was therefore quicker.

I’m now using ClearTeam Explorer and can’t seem to find an equivalent. I’d like to have this for a similar purpose, to figure out exactly what I need in the load rules for my snapshot view and also to decide what views I need to create.

Does anyone know if it is possible to view what files exist under a project in ClearTeam Explorer without first creating a view on the project / joining it?

ClearTeam Explorer is basically a trimmed down Eclipse with ClearCase specific plugins.

thanks.

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to create a dynamic view (you need to add -stream yourStream@\yourPvob to the mkview command, I know it looks like you “joining a project”, but still, dynamic view are quick to setup).

The idea is to configure your config spec with the right selection rules (a dynamic view will display the files instantly), and then make your snapshot view with those same selection rules (and the appropriate load rules, specific to a snapshot view)

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Note that, according to the CCRC wiki:

With the Release of v8.0, the ClearTeam Explorer is the common Eclipse UI client that supports MVFS on native clients, as well as webviews.
CM Server in 7.1.x was renamed to CCRC Wan Server in v8.

If you don’t have cleartool installed, that means you are using webviews (which are snapshot views with web access to the CCRC Wan server).

In that case, there is no easy way to browse any code from any Baseline (other than joining a project)