Question

Why does the “make baseline” command on clearcase explorer need the concerned user’s view ? (indeed, it asks for the “view context”)

I don’t see why clearcase expects this because a baseline applies on Stream…not a view.

Answer 1

The cleartool mkbl man page (which is the command behind the “Make Baseline”) mentions:

-vie/w view-tag

Specifies the view from which to create baselines. Baselines are created in the stream that the view is attached to.

For example, if you are working in coyne_dev_view, but want to create a baseline from the configuration specified by the view coyne_integration_view, use -view coyne_integration_view.
This option creates a baseline in the project’s integration stream that includes all the checked-in versions contained in coyne_integration_view.
If you do not specify view-tag, the current view is used.

In other words, making a baseline is about putting a label on a version of each files of a given component for a given stream.
Questions:

• which Stream? Answer: the one referenced by a view
• which version? answer: the one selected by the config spec of the view (ie not necessarily the latest one created on a Stream)

So to know what to label, ClearCase needs a view when making a baseline.