Re: [cciug] xemacs, Linux (RH 7.1) and clearcase views

From: Paul D. Smith (pausmith@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 00:40:57 EDT


%% Brian Wallis <brian.wallis@ot.com.au> writes:

I can't remember the last time I only had one view active :).

>> When I want to work with ClearCase, I use view-extended naming to visit
>> different files in my different views. In this approach you wouldn't
>> have the problem you mentioned.

  bw> I didn't know that with view extended naming (I assume you mean
  bw> /view/<view_name>/...)

Yes.

  bw> you could do everything including checkin and checkout! I thought
  bw> it was only useful to examine and edit the files but not do
  bw> clearcase related ops.

You can do everything. All setview is, underneath, is a chroot() system
call.

There are only very obscure things that don't work without a set view
(turns out, for example, that translating an OID back to a path using ct
describe won't work if you don't have a view set...)

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